Fear unleashed is a gripping middle-grade fantasy adventure about power, responsibility, and the courage to face your deepest fears. thirteen-year-old opal hart is a science prodigy with dreams of joining the space program-until a government placement board assigns her to pascam middle grades of magical studies. furious and disillusioned, opal is forced to attend a crumbling magic school, convinced that casting is a useless relic of the past. but everything changes the moment she reads aloud from an ancient casting book in class - accidentally unleashing a monstrous creature of fear called a karuk into the world. cities fall into chaos. people die. and worst of all, only the original summoner - opal - has the power to banish it. on the run from both the government and the creature she set loose, opal is joined by will, a quiet boy with mysterious dreams that often come true, and a fiercely loyal red drago. together, they flee across futuristic cities and ancient forests, seeking the help of the elusive aellivi, a reclusive people who may hold the key to unlocking opal's true abilities. but they're not the only ones with a plan. flint, a vengeful mage with delusions of glory, joins forces with the creature and raises an army from the bones of the earth. as darkness spreads, opal must confront not just the monster she unleashed - but the fear within herself. fast-paced, richly imagined, and laced with humor and heart, fear unleashed explores what it means to be powerful, how to find light in the shadow of guilt, and why sometimes the most important battles are the ones we fight inside ourselves.