a journey through heartbreak - • featured in @Romance's reading list • • featured in @TeenFiction's reading list • • featured in @CoffeeCommunity's reading list • • lowercase intended •

Janaashe-oora, a planet split between constant day and endless night, is home of one of the Kaivan Galaxy's most unusual species. The Khaarevaal are a highly creative and peaceful species which holds life as a celebrated occasion. As such, the death penalty is strictly forbidden in their court. So when Furghilze is wrongly accused of a gruesome double murder, she isn't killed. Rather, she has her wings cut off, and she's outcast from her home in the Nightdweller Realm. Forced to survive in the Scorching Barrens, the light side of Janaashe-oora, Furghilze is destined to survive in a literal wasteland. Wingless and broken, she is doomed to suffer the price for a crime she didn't commit. Or does she? Because when she discovers a book of blueprints within an abandoned blacksmith's workshop, she chooses to take back the life she lost. The machines Furghilze creates in her isolation soon draws the attention of one of the Barrens residents, and he's had more than enough of being trapped in this wasteland.

When Hallie King tries to leave the gang life, they're not willing to let her go. As their clutches tighten, her last job goes terribly awry and she's determined to save her mark. However, Ellis Gray seems to be a much higher-level target than she thought and the White Wolves won't stop until both of them are dead. thank you to @maskedt for the beautiful time skip banner featured in this book!