Scar Singers, The

di Aaron Raiffie (Autore)

Aaron Raiffie, 2026

The corruption is not in the dark. It is in the people trained to fight it. Elias Chandler is the last thing standing between the Ember Coast and extinction. As head Magister at the Institute of Penance — a fortress-school carved into the cliffs above a dying ocean — he teaches a dying discipline: how to infect yourself with a fragment of the Shadow-Surge, the ancient tide of reality-rot consuming the world, and survive the experience. How to carry a monster inside you and never let it out. He has done it for twenty years. The hunger is winning. When a political ultimatum gives Elias one month to turn forty traumatized students into a military weapon — or watch the Institute be sold for scrap — he finds an anomaly among the new recruits. Cora Gibson walked out of a village the Shadow-Surge erased three days ago. She has no magical signature. No resonance. No handle for the corruption to grab. She doesn't absorb the darkness. She reflects it — sending every force that touches her back at its source, perfectly and lethally. She is not a weapon. She is a mirror. And the first thing she shows Elias is what he has become. As the Surge accelerates toward the city and the Council's greed threatens to detonate the school's most volatile students from the inside, Elias and Cora must confront the same truth from opposite sides: the enemy was never the darkness. It was the isolation that let the darkness win. The Scar Singers is a standalone dark fantasy novel for adult listeners who love flawed teachers, impossible students, and magic systems where the price is written in scar tissue.

• Autore: Aaron Raiffie
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 09:01:57
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Aaron Raiffie
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798240049002