Scholar Shipped
(2026)(The ninth book in the Keepers of Warden's Rest series)
A Story by Jeremy Fabiano
They wanted to trade students. Nobody mentioned refunds.After Warden's Rest's tournament victory, every academy wants to know Alden Voss's secret. Their solution? A mandatory student exchange program. Now Alden's beautiful disasters are scattered across the realm while he's stuck with other schools' rejects.
There's a Goldspire perfectionist who has a breakdown every time someone breaks protocol. A military academy berserker who solves everything with explosions. A nature conservatory student whose plants keep trying to eat people. And worst of all, a chaos magic prodigy who makes Milo look predictable.
Meanwhile, his kids are learning that other academies don't appreciate their unique brand of weaponized dysfunction. Darion's getting detention for "excessive pragmatism." Tasha's anxiety is apparently "disruptive to proper magical form." And Marcus has been banned from three different libraries for "aggressive panic studying."
But when the exchange students' antics reveal a coordinated plot against multiple academies, Alden must forge these new disasters into a functioning team while getting his own kids home before they accidentally start an inter-academy war.
At Warden's Rest, everyone's welcome. Surviving the welcome is optional.
The exchange program was supposed to share teaching methods. Instead, it's teaching Alden why most academies stick to conventional magic—it's safer for the infrastructure.
Genre: Fantasy
There's a Goldspire perfectionist who has a breakdown every time someone breaks protocol. A military academy berserker who solves everything with explosions. A nature conservatory student whose plants keep trying to eat people. And worst of all, a chaos magic prodigy who makes Milo look predictable.
Meanwhile, his kids are learning that other academies don't appreciate their unique brand of weaponized dysfunction. Darion's getting detention for "excessive pragmatism." Tasha's anxiety is apparently "disruptive to proper magical form." And Marcus has been banned from three different libraries for "aggressive panic studying."
But when the exchange students' antics reveal a coordinated plot against multiple academies, Alden must forge these new disasters into a functioning team while getting his own kids home before they accidentally start an inter-academy war.
At Warden's Rest, everyone's welcome. Surviving the welcome is optional.
The exchange program was supposed to share teaching methods. Instead, it's teaching Alden why most academies stick to conventional magic—it's safer for the infrastructure.
Genre: Fantasy