Overview

In the sterile world of the Axiom, emotion is a disease, and I am the perfect component: logical, obedient, and pure. Until a single touch of a forbidden artifact shatters my reality.

Marked for “recalibration”—a procedure that will wipe my mind and soul—I have only one choice: run. My flight rips a hole in the fabric of my world, throwing me through a portal and into the impossible halls of Noctua Academy.

Here, magic is a living, breathing force. Knowledge is a weapon, the shadows hold ancient secrets, and emotion is the most powerful magic of all. But I am not a student. I am an anomaly, a fugitive from a dead world, and my survival now depends on three women who see me as a threat, a curiosity, and a puzzle they are desperate to solve.

• Cressida, the brilliant, cold rival whose intellect is as sharp as her magic. She sees me as a flaw in her perfect system, a chaotic variable she is determined to control.
• Rowan, the fierce, protective warden of the grounds. She trusts nothing she cannot touch or tame, and she sees me as a poison that has seeped into her sacred world.
• Delphine, the kind-hearted historian whose empathy is a balm to my conditioned soul. She sees a universe of secrets in my eyes and offers a connection I never knew was possible.

They are my keepers, my rivals, my only hope… and a temptation my logical mind cannot compute. As the forces of my grey world prepare to tear down their vibrant one, our dangerous bond may be the only weapon powerful enough to save us.

Why choose between the mind that challenges me, the heart that heals me, and the strength that protects me? In a war between two worlds, the only answer is all of them.

"The Obsidian Codex" is a steamy, plot-heavy Dark Academia Why Choose portal fantasy. If you love enemies to lovers, found family, grumpy sunshine dynamics, and epic magical conspiracies, scroll up and enter the halls of Noctua today.