Freak

He was born with nothing. The empire made sure of it.
Kael Dawnveil was nineteen years old when he watched his father hang from the empire's gallows, framed for treason by the very men who feared him. As a Hollow, a man born without the Resonance that determines power and worth in the Empire of Solverath, Kael had no army, no title, no magic. Just a name nobody remembered and a rage he had nowhere...

Jorren Thale has known failure his whole life. Not the ordinary kind. The kind that gets stamped into your official record, that follows your family name like a shadow, that makes evaluators smirk before you even press your palm to the stone.

When the Soulstone cracks at his touch and brands him with a zero grade, everyone in the chamber considers his story finished.
They are wrong.
A strange...

Some girls are born with magic. Cora was born with a curse.

After her own family calls her a demon and sets a hound on her heels, twelve-year-old Cora flees into the woods—alone, afraid, and carrying a name she never asked for: SUCCUBUS.

Rescued by a strange old woman named Sadie, Cora finds shelter on a quiet farm at the edge of a tight-knit village. But the nights are strange. Sadie whispers...