Todd Fahnestock is an American fantasy author, born in Culver City, California. He began publishing with the Heartstone Trilogy — Heir of Autumn, Mistress of Winter and Queen of Oblivion — co-written with Giles Carwyn for HarperCollins' Eos imprint between 2006 and 2008, and has since written largely on his own, across the Tower of the Four academy fantasy, the Threadweavers and Whisper Prince series, the middle-grade Wishing World books, and the Legacy of Shadows arc set in the shared Eldros Le...
Tower of the Four — The Champions Academy: Episodes 1-3
Tower of the Four — The Champions Academy: Episodes 1-3
Synopsis
An invitation from the Collector brings Brom to the Champions Academy, the one place he can learn magic. He arrives expecting lessons and finds a condition instead: magic at the Academy is worked by a Quad, four students bound together, and a student without one is a student on his way home.
The three assigned to him are not promising material. There is a decades-old feud between two of them that neither has any interest in setting down, and a feral little urchin who trusts nobody. Brom has to make a functioning Quad out of people who would sooner see each other expelled — and he has to do it before the Academy does the expelling for them.
This volume collects Episodes 1-3 of Tower of the Four — The Quad, The Tower, and The Test — the opening arc of Todd Fahnestock's academy fantasy. It was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in 2021.
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BromProtagonist
Invited to the Champions Academy, he must forge three hostile classmates into a Quad before all four are expelled.
The CollectorSupporting
The figure whose invitation brings Brom to the Champions Academy.
