Ember (REVISED)

~The Gifted: Book 1 ~ Ember (REVISED) ~
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The monster inside me is growing.

It strengthens with every snapped neck and slit throat and charred body I leave in my wake. It feeds on every regret, every flash of guilt, every sweeping tide of sorrow. It feeds and feeds and feeds until there's no regret, no sorrow, no guilt left. That's the day I stop feeling. The day I forget that every body I add to the pile was a person, that they had a family, they had friends, they had a life before I took it all away. That's the day I've been running from this whole time. The day the monster consumes me. The day the monster becomes me.

I fear that day is drawing near. And I am terrified.
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Christina lives a hard life on the streets. With no family members, she steals in order to survive in a cruel world struggling to crawl out of the ashes of war. But Christina knows she isn't normal. Gifted with the ability to control fire, she is marked as a freak of nature; forever destined to be an outcast. And little does she know, everything is about to change.

One day, Christina is taken by strange black-clad people. She awakes in a cell, and she soon realizes that there is something larger going on. As she makes her way through brutal - not to mention deadly - tests, Christina discovers that she is not alone.

There are more like her.

In order to save her newfound friends, Christina will have to face daunting challenges and make impossible decisions, all while unearthing a terrible secret that threatens to destroy everything she knows.

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