Psycho Academy : Aran's Story Book 1

Psycho Academy THE CRUEL SHIFTERVERSE SERIES: ARAN’S STORY BOOK 1 JASMINE MAS Copyright © 2022 by Jasmine Mas All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including informational storage and retrieval systems, without permission from the author, except for use of brief quotations in a book review. Ebook ASIN: B0BK7H3VNW Editing and proofreading by Lyss Em Editing Cover artists: Damonza Book Cover Designs Go to blog.jasminemasbooks.com to receive news of releases and sneak peaks straight to your inbox. 936 SW 1st Ave, Unit #56, Miami Florida 33130 Created with Vellum Contents Also by Jasmine Mas Warning Foreword Into the Stars Must-read Recap: Aran’s Story Books 1-3 (Spoilers) And so it began 1. Vampyre Visits The Reckoning 2. Hell 3. The Beginning of the End 4. Meeting Fate Assassin Division: The Breaking Period 5. Welcome to Torture 6. Drowning in Hell 7. A Class of Sin 8. Suffering 9. “Run,” said the Devil 10. A Monster or Man? 11. A Devil’s Touch 12. Torment 13. Old Enemies Return 14. Flames & Water 15. The Class of Sinners 16. Dancing with the Devil 17. A Voice like Sin 18. Fight like the Devil 19. Rest for the Wicked Assassin Field Training: War 20. The Ungodly 21. God’s Dead 22. The Aftermath 23. A Bleeding Soul 24. Fighting With the Devil 25. His Kiss 26. Dinner with the Devil 27. Carnal Sins 28. Prophets of Death 29. A Devil on the Tongue 30. Omens 31. Friendship in Darkness 32. Jealousy Kills 33. Taunting Fate 34. Embracing Death 35. Blood on the Tongue 36. The Devil Raves 37. Meeting Your Destiny 38. Blood Is Thinner Than Water 39. The Devils Are Here Epilogue About the Author Thank You Also by Jasmine Mas The Cruel Shifterverse Psycho Shifters Psycho Fae Psycho Beasts Psycho Academy: Aran’s Story Book 1 Psycho Devils: Aran’s Story Book 2 (preorder now) Warning They are true enemies. This is war. It is excessively violent. This is a reverse harem. Everyone’s a villain. This is a slow burn romance. Don’t panic. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —Shakespeare, The Tempest Into the Stars All myths are rooted in some truth. This series is about different planets connected by black holes. Aka, realms attached by portals with inhabitants you’ve heard of in myths and dismissed as fairy tales. There are politics, deceptions, and secrets on the macro scale. And they vary from realm to realm. In the human realm, the inhabitants learn they live in an anarchic system, that there is no supreme authority over different countries. They’re wrong. The High Court secretly reigns sovereign over all the worlds. “Realm-Wide Peace” is their motto. Monsters enforce this peace. A next-to-impossible task because wealth corrupts, but power destroys. And among the hundreds of planets with sentient life, a few special individuals possess power on the nuclear level—more energy in their cells than an atomic bomb. The truth: Most individuals go their entire lives without knowing or caring about the other realms or the creatures within them. They live in bliss. In this series, ignorance isn’t an option for our main characters. Through birthright or circumstances, they’re players in the macrolevel game. Now all they must do is survive. Must-read Recap: Aran’s Story Books 1-3 (Spoilers) I was born Arabella Alis Egan, Princess of the Fae Realm. Daughter of the mad fae queen who ruled on the seat of death. Royalty in one of the largest, cruelest realms in the universe. Billions strong. The fae manifested abilities at a young age over fire, earth, water, or air. But I manifested nothing. At sixteen years old, all elite youths took the fae standardized tests. I tested average on all sections except one. I scored first out of thirty-three million in battle strategizing. It wasn’t a good thing. With no fae abilities, and a mad queen as my mother, I was prime breeding stock. I had virginity, obedience, a propensity for strategy, piety to the sun god, and above all else, royalty. At least, that was what Mother said to the buyers. But she set me aflame each night. Mother hoped to awaken a single ounce of power in my bones—but nothing ever came. She burned my body with her power that never left any marks. It wasn’t just to strengthen me, she had an unholy rage, especially when it came to controlling people. I’d always aspired to run, hunt, and learn. Never to breed. But with no powers and an honorable test score, Mother made arrangements. And she punished me for my insolence. A few weeks after the tests, I disguised myself as a boy with an enchanted ring and fled from the sunny realm via a hidden portal into the frigid shifter realm. In the new realm, a man in a cloak, with bright-blue eyes, had me tested and proclaimed me a beta shifter. I didn’t know why he lied. Or who he was. At a fortress in the shifter realm, posing as a beta male, I fought off arachnid monsters that infiltrated the shifter realm by portal. I lost myself in combat training and war. I’d never been so happy. At twenty-four, after making a life for myself in the desolate, wintery land, I met my best friend, Sadie. A scrawny alpha female who was covered in scars, with a terrifying tiger form. We bonded over our mutual experiences with self-deprecating humor, war, and pain. Mostly pain. Sadie clashed with her three alpha warrior roommates: Ascher, Jax, and Cobra. But we read stories and hung out. She was my first true friend. My first best friend. The good times ended. At a celebration of the new year, a kitten I’d found turned out to be an omega shifter—Xerxes, my mother’s right-hand assassin. Working alongside Ascher, another spy, he kidnapped Sadie, Jax, and Cobra into the fae realm. They didn’t go alone. Ascher grabbed me from the party because