Aether Awakening: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Academy Novel of S-Class Hunters: An

An ancient leviathan awakens beneath Zurich. A secret academy opens its gates. And a broke outcast discovers he carries the world's most dangerous bloodline.Eighteen-year-old Caelen Vance was just trying to survive night to night in the wet alleyways of Zurich. But when a rogue monster attacks and his dormant S-Class kinetic powers involuntarily detonate, Caelen is yanked out of obscurity and dragged into Valence Academy-a high-tech, gothic fortress for elite monster hunters.He isn't welcomed as a hero. He's classified as a liability.Teamed up with Evelyn Thorne, a fierce heiress wielding a rune-forged blade, and Rian Kuroda, a cold corporate lightning prodigy, Caelen must navigate lethal combat exams and internal academy politics. But as subterranean pressure drops and the city's Aether grid begins to fracture, Squad 7 uncovers a terrifying global conspiracy: corrupt hybrid syndicates are harvesting hybrid blood, rigging combat trials, and deliberately waking the ancient Primordials.To survive the academy and save his squad, Caelen must master his volatile gravity manipulation-before the sea leviathan beneath the lake claims him first.Filled with high-octane action, secret societies, elemental magic systems, and fast-paced academy trials, Aether Awakening is the epic first installment in The Primordial Covenant series.