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ABERRANT DIVINE is a dual-timeline romantic epic fantasy that blends the war college setting of Fourth Wing with the mind-flayer lore of Baldur’s Gate III (if the aberrations were hot angels instead of squids). Featuring a slow-burn, doomed-by-the-narrative Achillean romance, it will appeal to readers who love Song of Achilles, Babel, and The Summer Hikaru Died. Additional Tropes: 🖤 Magic War College 👁️ Eldritch/ Cosmic Monsters 🖤 Light Victorian Steampunk World 👁️ Weird Monster Kinks 🖤 Trippy Hive Minds 👁️ Neurodivergent-coded Protagonists 🖤 Trauma Healing and Hurt/ Comfort 👁️ Oops! All Clerics Magic System Blurb: Locke Kevli was once the army’s greatest weapon—part of an elite team of mages anointed by the gods and trained at the Magus S.O.A.R. Academy to defend the Innerlands against a Hive of invading aberrations. At the academy, Locke lived under strict rules: Don’t fall in love, and don’t let anyone know his secret—that he is an aberration, too. When he broke both rules, the world changed forever. Now, Locke is old before his time, and it’s hard to believe he’d ever once been happy. He’s half a man and half a monster, his body caught between the boy he once was and the aberration the world would rather forget about. But the Hive is stirring once more. A new lesion has split open and set the Innerlands’ most high-security prisoners free. Among them is Eran Seros—Locke’s closest friend, his secret lover, and the boy who betrayed them all. The only thing Locke fears more than getting drawn into another war is having to face the boy who ruined everything that had once been good about him.