Embers

Sixteen year old Juliet Stokes is New York's brightest young hero, a girl forged in fire and stone by an experiment that should have destroyed her. By day she is a student trying to survive school, family, and a body that never fully healed. By night she is Avalanche, a weapon the city depends on and a symbol she never asked to become.
Across the river, Alex Samuels fights his own war with unstable power, public expectation, and a Hero Council that treats teenagers like tools. When their paths cross during a city shaking disaster on New Year's Eve, neither of them knows the other's name, only the cost of standing too close to the fire.
As L.I.O.N.S. resurfaces and the truth behind their creation threatens to tear the city apart, Juliet and Alex are forced to confront what it means to be heroes built by pain, and whether love can survive in the aftermath of controlled chaos.
Embers is a YA superhero romance about power, trauma, and choosing who you become when the world decides what you are worth.