Arnold Ethon is the main character of A.P. Beswick’s Spirit Beast Saga, a YA urban fantasy series published between 2019 and 2023. Arnold is fifteen years old when the series begins, and unlike the other young characters around him, he has no Spirit Beast. That changes when he discovers latent abilities of his own and gets recruited by the Spirit Wardens, an organization that finds and trains teenagers with Spirit Beast bonds.
The series follows Arnold as he grows into his powers and faces threats that test both his abilities and his loyalty. The books bear his name in their titles, from Arnold Ethon And The Lions Of Tsavo through Arnold Ethon And The War Of The Roses, and Arnold is the constant through all of it. Over four books he goes from an outsider with no Beast to a capable Spirit Wielder.
Beswick started the series as a self-published project that later grew into a broader fantasy universe, the Levanthria books. Arnold’s story is where that world began.
Reading Order
See the complete Spirit Beast Saga reading order for all books in the series.