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Summary:
Before Hayden’s explosive magic detonates his mother’s home, before his magic is Bound for two years, before he is sent to the orphanage at Merina, or to Mizzenwald to learn magic, his father made a choice.

Aleric Frost was not always known as the Dark Prism. At sixteen, he is heir to one of the most prominent Great Houses in the Nine Lands. An excellent mage, Aleric is handsome, charming, well-liked, and the envy of his peers at Mizzenwald (including his best friend). But beneath the veneer of glamour and good fortune, he battles demons that no one else can see: self-doubt, inferiority, the suffocating sense of oppression that comes along with a destiny he can’t control, and a father who is eternally displeased with him.

Until the day he gets a choice: to continue along the path that his family has laid out for him, or to break free of the life he’s always lived and carve his own place in history.

He chooses wrong.

**Note: This is a prequel to The Broken Prism series. To prevent spoilers, the author recommends reading in the order of publication, beginning with The Broken Prism series and ending with The Dark Prism prequels**