THE OBSIDIAN VOW (The Triad Series, Book One) The Academy trained him to be silent. The Deep Song called her to be a revolutionary. A forgotten diary gave them the map to break the world. For five hundred years, the Matriarchy has ruled with absolute power, fueled by a brutal exchange: Women cast the magic, and men pay the price. Bred in the cold, stone halls of The Academy , men like Kaelen are stripped of their voices and trained to become Siphons—human batteries destined to be drained until they turn to statues of obsidian. Isadora Sterling is a Highborn Witch, but she is slowly fracturing. A maddening, geological rhythm known as the Deep Song claws at her mind, threatening to drive her insane just as it did the women before her if she doesn't Siphon her magic. She needs an Anchor to survive the noise, but she refuses to condemn Kaelen to the slow death her society demands. She never uses enough magic to bring the silence to her mind. Her defiance only just starts when she finds a hidden journal belonging to her great-grandmother, Elara Sterling, when she was 12 years old. Within its decaying pages lies a secret history the Council erased: The magic was never meant to be a duality of predator and prey. Elara’s writings reveal the "Third Point," the ancient Drakes that once shared the burden of the Song. Armed with the truth, Isadora and Kaelen flee the city to wake the sleeping dragons. But the High Matriarch Valerica is watching. Terrified that the return of the Drakes will topple her throne, she initiates a ruthless political purge, rewriting the laws to authorize a mass genocide of the unbonded men to build an army of stone. Now, Isadora and Kaelen are no longer just running for their lives. They are racing to rewrite history before Valerica burns the future. Silence is safety. But the truth is worth a war.