Echoes and Embers: A Clean Dark YA Magical Academy Urban Fantasy (The Tattered Souls series)

Something ancient is spreading through the academy…one damaged soul at a time.

Sixteen-year-old April Kingsley can sense damaged souls with a single touch. A hug. A handhold. Even brushing against someone in a crowded hallway can leave her drowning in their fear, pain, and brokenness.

But healing damaged souls comes at a terrible price.

Every time April uses her power, it drains pieces of her own spirit away.

After barely surviving an attack by a soul-devouring shadow creature, April returns to Saguaro Academy hoping for answers about her strange magic. Instead, fear is spreading through the school. Students are changing. Loyalties are shifting. And something dangerous is moving beneath the academy walls.

Now April can sense strange echoes left behind in damaged souls, fragments of magic clinging to people and places like glowing embers after a fire. Some can be healed. Some should never be touched.

And someone hiding in the shadows believes April was created for something far more dangerous than saving lives.

As suspicion fractures the academy and her powers grow harder to control, April faces an impossible choice: resist the darkness growing inside her…or embrace the terrifying magic that may be the only thing capable of stopping what’s coming.

Perfect for readers who love magical academies, forbidden soul magic, found family, shadow-haunted mysteries, dangerous powers, and heroines fighting not to become the very thing they fear.

Fans of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, A Deadly Education, and Crave will be pulled into this dark magical-academy fantasy where shadows spread through damaged souls, secrets smolder beneath the surface, and healing magic comes at a devastating cost. In Echoes and Embers, the line between healer and monster is beginning to disappear.