Twelve-year-old Shad Hadid is an aspiring baker whose life is uprooted when he discovers hes descended from a long line of alchemists and sent to the mysterious Alexandria Academy. Only, his arrival at the school awakens a nefarious force long lurking in the shadows, and hell soon learn he holds the key to either stoppingor unleashingtheir evil plot.
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