The Dark Army — J.C. Bell

The lost ones, the children of war â€" after the fall of the Red Wall orphans abound. With no family, no home, they have but one place to go â€" the so-called Warphanage; where they will train to become the world's next generation of champion defenders.
But the school has become a prison . . .
Their lessons now taught through the crack of the whip.
Some push on, growing stronger with every lash, while others fall, and are never seen again . . .
In the end, their new destiny is clear . . . a death-march into the Black Door.
But one student has not only grown strong through his trials . . . he has attained perfection because of them. And Rian intends to use his skills not in the Rift, but against his new masters.