“The Labyrinth of Elements” is a fantasy romance novel by Olga Yaroshninskaya, the first book in the “Elemental World” cycle; genre: romantic fantasy, adventurous fantasy.
Chaos has awakened in my blood, and now I must either learn to control it or seal it forever. The academy has its own atmosphere: teachers either teach—or maim. At night in the dormitory, a ghost wanders around, and on the horizon there’s a Wall, beyond which they will send me to patrol— to kill creatures of chaos.
It’s far easier to refuse magic and get married, and my mother desperately pushes me down that path. After the first year, all students are sent into the Labyrinth of Elements, where chaos takes one of six forms. I don’t know who I’ll come out as, or if I’ll come out at all—but how else can I find out who I truly am?