Bodies Of Magic by Freya Marske

DESCRIPTION:

At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer's gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam - a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future.

The list of exam rules includes:
- You will perform five practical cases.
- Your exam group is chosen at random.
- You pass together, or fail together.

It does not include:
- On the first day, your exam group will find a classmate's dead body in the exam hall.

And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide. . . and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class.

Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.

Are you ready?

Let's begin.

DETAILS:

• TOR
• Imprint : Tor Books
• Fall 2026
• On Sale: Sep 15/26
• Cloth | 5.6 x 8.6 | 464 pages
• map (spread)
• FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy
• 9781250341655