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DarkIce: Book 0

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Cohen must survive the streets as a homeless teen after being kicked out of his last foster home. Can he find his way alone? Will the strange monster living within him finally burn his last bridge? Or will Cohen learn that sometimes the biggest flaw can be the one thing that opens the door to a better life?

DarkIce: Book 1

A Spark Too Deep

Cohen isn’t your average student at the floating school of SkyFire Magic Academy. He carries a rare power, one that frightens many. When students are hurt by inexplicable magic, all eyes turn to Cohen.

All Cohen wants is to graduate, get a normal job, maybe a motorcycle, and keep his acquired brothers close. He doesn’t have the heart or the time to cause trouble. He’s behind in his studies enough, having started school years later than every other student.

But when a student Cohen’s had altercations with before nearly suffocates his youngest brother, Pickle, simply so she can steal his magical creatures project, Cohen lashes out and gets caught.

Parents and staff push to drain Cohen’s spark and have him banished to Earth below as a non to make the world safer for everyone. But something goes terribly awry during the procedure, and Cohen is blown back from the machine, his chosen family crests fading from his forearms.

Rumors of DarkIce forces invading spread through the crowd. Some think Cohen is a member of their old enemy–the dangerous son of a soldier of DarkIce.

After growing up in foster homes on Earth until he was kicked out for being bad luck, Cohen isn’t sure what to believe. He can’t deny his similarities to the soldiers from history books.

Maybe I don’t belong at SkyFire.

When he’s dropped back on earth as a non, Cohen discovers an odd little mountain town with plenty of secrets of its own. Something hides in the forest, a powerful darkness that pulls him deeper, unveiling a much bigger mystery than the static his fingers still seem to have.

Contacting his brothers in secret, Cohen learns of just how bad the situation has become on SkyFire. Students have gone missing. Others have been found but seem different. Pickle, his Hatchling brother, is scared. Quinn, in his Boomer years, is doing his best to be brave for Pickle. They look up to him, but Cohen feels helpless and stuck.

An abandoned mansion he makes his home in the mountains and the mother and daughter he befriends in the forest have a lot to offer that SkyFire’s instructors never did. Earth is not the only planet in the universe with magic.

Will Cohen find a way to rescue his brothers before DarkIce can get to them? Or will being rendered a non permanently prevent him from ever seeing his brothers again?

A young adult fantasy with elements of science fiction, military, action, violence, suspense, and mild language.