The Sorcery Code (The Sorcery Code: Volume 1)

I enjoyed this sci-fi tale by the authors of the Krinar Chronicles. The story is very interesting, suspenseful, and well-written. It is about a society made up of an upper ruling class which lives in luxury and comprised of sorcerers. The rest of the society lives in slums and because of a drought has little food.

Blaise, a sorcerer, has been an outcast from the Sorcerer Council for two years. He left when the Council killed his brother. He dislikes that the bulk of society does not have the sorcerer power and has been working hard to find a way to give them this power. He fails and instead of what he expected to create, he creates a very beautiful woman, Gala, with sorcerer power and high intelligence. Blaise feels he must hide Gala from the Council because the Council will want to use her for their own ends.

But Gala does not want to be hidden away. She needs Blaise to understand that she is a person with her own needs and desires and does not want to be used. She hated not being able to do exactly what she wanted. This creates problems.

Besides his difficulty with Gala, Blaise has a problem with his prior girlfriend who he rejected two years ago believing she sided with those who voted to kill his brother. Her current boyfriend is the head of the army. She and her boyfriend are trying to take over control of the country.