Jewel Bonds

AN ADMIRERKaeck is a poor, shy, mage, barely able to afford attending the famous Valker Royal University of Magic and Combat. His life is work and school, leaving him too busy to have fun, or even make a single friend. When he goes to check his mail one day, however, he finds a letter from a secret admirer. Then a chance meeting with one of the most beloved and popular students in the school builds into a friendship, and soon Kaeck finds himself caught between a man he doesn't know, and a man clearly in love with someone else... KISS THE RAINSelsor's dream of being a mage is shattered when he displays no magic despite possessing the ability to use it. In the aftermath of failing yet another test while all his peers succeed, Selsor is bullied relentlessly-and lashes out with uncontrolled magic, accidentally killing an innocent bystander.He is banned from using magic for life, his mage jewels blackened, and thrown out to survive on his own. Years later, a pariah slaving away in the middle of nowhere, his life is disrupted by a bold, arrogant knight who has come to solve the mystery of the rain that has not stopped falling in the village for months... AN EXCEPTIONWhen the man Riot served for yeras dies, he is replaced by a flashy young man who regards Riot as a threat and throws him out. With no home, no possessions, and no money, Riot has gone from a stable life he enjoyed to feeling like the world no longer needs nor wants him.Then a chance encounter brings a promise of temporary work that is certainly better than nothing. If the job comes from yet another flashy young man, well, hopefully he won't be as bad as the last. This volume also includes the bonus short How to Court a Librarian