Always the Dungeon Master, never the academic.
Juniper Smith always dreamed of attending a magic college. Now he's enrolled at the Athenaeum of Sound and Silence, where students learn to bend velocity and freeze motion itself. There's just one catch: he's there as a government operative, hunting threats that lurk in the shadows between lectures. Echoes of Earth follow him even here. An old friend wears a stranger's face, carrying secrets about Arthur's time in Juniper's world—secrets that could rewrite everything Juniper thought he understood. Under the watchful eye of an umbral professor draped in colors that belie her shadowy nature, he finds himself navigating lessons far more dangerous than any syllabus. Dark forces are converging on the athenaeum, and Juniper is about to get an education in more ways than one.
