The Loudest Bond: A Cozy Magic-School Fantasy

Cas Merrow is very good at seeming fine.

His moon hare, Lumen, is less cooperative. She glows - cool silver-blue, in any room where someone is hurting - and when she does, everyone around her briefly, precisely, knows the truth of what they feel. Not what Cas wants them to feel. What they actually feel.

This is why Cas left his last school. Or rather: why his last school asked him to leave.

At Silverfen Academy, he has a plan. Learn the routes. Tell the right jokes. Keep Lumen close. Give nothing away.

Then Wren Ashby - who spent her own first term hiding a fox in her bag while she decided if Silverfen was safe enough to trust - begins to wait.

The Loudest Bond is Book Two of the Silverfen Academy series: a story about the cost of suppressing who you are, the patience of animals who know you better than you do, and what it feels like to be found rather than found out.

This book will stay with you.