The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six by Olivie BlakeThe Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and

Briony and the other survivors are quickly auctioned off to the highest bidders in an auction – and as the heir-apparent’s sister

minor-league-sized life he used to find fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis makes feel possible

and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war

making an unexpected connection with a local woman

When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince

Step into the Coliseum at the Spartan War Academy where monsters are made

Illegitimate and of mixed heritage

and she took away the only person he ever loved

But Iris has a secret she's forbidden to share: The village is cursed by a demon who possesses girls at random

all while solving the decades-old murder that sparked the still-rising tensions between the city’s magical and non-magical communities

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