Wyrmridge
YA Fantasy
The next high-desert fantasy. New world, same rules that bite. Sign up below to hear the moment it releases.
Young adult fantasy & science fiction
High-stakes trials.
High-stakes trials.
Magic with rules.
Stories where the magic has rules that bite and every trial costs something. Written from the high desert of New Mexico.
Out now · YA Fantasy
The books
Provinces against the machine. Talent against the name.
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The Phoenix Examination
A charcoal-burner's daughter ranked a humiliating 98th discovers the empire's sacred examination is rigged against the provinces. So she sets out to take the machine apart.
Rin Solace reads fire the way other people read books. She solved every construct in the empire's two-hundred-year-old proving ground, and still placed 98th. The exam is not measuring power. It is recognizing the right hands, the right name. With a sharp-eyed merchant's daughter and the first-ranked Lord Cassian Veil, she is going to find the leak in the system and force it to tell the truth.
Provincial underdog vs. a rigged elite
Academic rivals to partners
High-stakes magical examination
Engineering-minded magic
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Next from Dr. Tobe Phelps
Magic with rules. Trials with teeth. Underdogs who refuse to lose quietly.
Dr. Tobe Phelps writes young adult fantasy and science fiction, including the Awakenings series and the standalone The Phoenix Examination. His stories run on high-stakes trials, hard moral choices, and magic systems with rules that bite. He writes from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the high-desert light and wide skies find their way onto nearly every page.
What every Phelps book delivers
The rules are the story.
Magic with rules
Systems with limits, costs, and consequences you can reason about.
Hard moral choices
Provincial underdogs
Institutions worth taking apart
The rigged machine, examined piece by piece.
Every trial costs something.
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