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The Culling Trials Book 1


A Young Adult Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Novel & K.F. Breene


Book 1 of the Shadowspell Academy Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Magical School,
  • Cross-Dressing / Disguised Identity,
  • Academy Fantasy
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Secret magical schools where survival is never guaranteed
  • Girls disguising themselves to protect family at any cost
  • Deadly trials with monsters, assassins, and rising undead
Publisher Description

You Don't Choose The Academy. The Academy Chooses You.

I had no idea how those words would change my life. Or how they'd changed my life already…Until the day the most dangerous man I've ever met waltzed onto my farm and left us a death sentence.

In an invitation.

My younger brother has been chosen for the prestigious, secret magical school hidden within the folds of our mundane world. A place so dangerous, they don't guarantee you'll make it out alive.

If he doesn't go our entire family will be killed.

It's the same invitation my older brother received three years ago—the same place he mysteriously died.

The academy has already killed one sibling. I'll be damned if they take another.

I do the only thing an older sister can: chop off my hair, strap on two bras to flatten the girls, and take my brother's place.

Magic and monsters are real. Assassins are coming for me, and the dead are prone to rise. What's a girl faking it as a boy supposed to do? That's right—beat the academy at its own game.

Or die trying.

Shadowspell Academy novels offer delicious cliffhangers that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final book - Shadowspell Academy: Year of the Chameleon (Book 6)

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