While spending a summer in Ventura, California with her grandma, Sara Jones is introduced to Google, a guy who got his name from being intelligent at birth, and at first seems to be hiding something. She learns secrets about him and her grandma, secrets about what they are, and what she is. About who is hunting them.
Google Skier has wings. So does the rest of his family. Everyone except his sister, Vanessa. She got taken away eleven years ago by a group hunting people like them, and he has never been able to forgive himself.
The night Google and Sara meet, Google's family is attacked again. This time, they took the wings of Jordan, Google's youngest brother. When Google learns that Sara is in danger, and Jordan's shoulder blades won't stop hurting, Google will learn to put his past behind him, and possibly take down the ones hunting them once and for all.
Little Sember stole readers' hearts in "Siena." Join her now, ten years later, as she embarks on a quest of her own to save her people, and to finally accept her true self along the way.
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Sixteen and struggling is not how Sember wants to describe herself. Born with the ability to conjure fire, every day is a challenge to keep the churning blaze within her under control. After nearly incinerating her parents at the age of six, guilt and doubt plague her at every turn.
While the village's gifted healer is away, a mysterious disease sweeps through Foresthome, and people start dying. When her parents get infected and the resident herbalist has no solutions, she takes it upon herself to track the clues and locate the source of this unnatural plague. Joined by her brother and a handsome Iceling, they must unravel the mystery and face an unexpected enemy in the shadows. If they fail, the plague will engulf the world she knows, plunging it into dark times.
Maybe a little fire is exactly what they need.
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Big thanks to @vexnir for illustrating this awesome cover.