The Path of Balance Paperback (The Aspects of Magic Book 2)

Exclusive direct-store paperback edition: Includes four bonus scenes not available in the retail edition, plus an exclusive foreword by Kyle West.

The Volsung Academy is under siege.

Its legendary founder, Arian—Sorcerer-Ascendant of Magekind—has vanished. Rival schools are circling, sensing weakness, eager to seize control and reshape the future of magic in their image.

And Volsung's new philosophy, the Path of Balance, is dismissed as exactly the kind of softness that invites predators.

When Vivienne Desai is unexpectedly chosen to represent Volsung at the Mage Games on Mars, the stakes couldn't be higher. Held once every four years, the Games are where academies put their best students forward in a bid for honor, prestige, and the coveted Manifold Crown—while behind the scenes, the real tournament is already underway.

Every academy head wants to shape the future of magic. And each one sees something different when they look at her.

A weapon. A prodigy. A tool. A threat.

The Path of Balance teaches restraint. But when the Games demand everything, restraint may be the first thing to break.

Paperback Details

• Format: Unsigned, perfect-bound paperback (614 pages)
• Series: The Aspects of Magic — Book 2 (a prequel series to The Starsea Cycle)
• ISBN: 978-1-954411-31-9
• Direct-store exclusive: Four additional scenes and an author foreword not available in the standard retail edition

This is an unsigned physical paperback, not an ebook. For a signed collector's edition, see the separately listed signed hardback.