At Lucent Academy, you don’t choose your mate. You summon them.Every Manaborn of the Invicto Empire is claimed at adulthood and shipped to the Academy—to master their power and call forth their fated mate from the Pacted Realms. A beastkin mate is common. A vampire, rare. A dragon? That’s the kind of legend nobles brag about for generations.But highborn or lowborn, everyone knows the unbreakable rule of our Empire: You summon exactly one Bonded Mate....