The Black Mage: Apprentice

The Black Mage: Apprentice

She survived a trial year at the Academy, but that was just the easy part€¦ <br /> <br />Now sixteen-year-old Ryiah is an apprentice of Combat, her school€s most notorious faction of magic. When she finishes she will be a mage, but in order to do so she has to survive four years with a training master she hates and her old nemesis, Priscilla. To make matters worse the unwanted attraction Ry feels for her sometimes-friend-sometimes-rival Prince Darren is at an all time high €“even though he is betrothed to the very girl she can€t stand. <br /> <br />Really, the only bright spot to Ryiah€s new life is the time she spends with her friends, including an older apprentice named Ian, who she finds herself thinking about quite often. <br /> <br />Just when things start to get comfortable they take a turn for the worse. An apprentice is killed in a rebel attack and several mages end up dead. Unwittingly, the apprentices find themselves in the midst of a budding unrest between Jerar and its northern neighbor, Caltoth. For Ryiah the impending conflict means many things, but as her apprenticeship draws to a close she finds her biggest problem at home. <br /> <br />Unfortunately for her, Darren€s not going anywhere. <br />