Sailor Moon meets Cinder in this first entry in a new, richly imagined fantasy series full of romance, adventure and kick-a** heroines, from the author of New York Times bestselling debut Wintersong!

Magic flickers.
Love flames.
Chaos reigns.
Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms.
Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the
plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before.
Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about — appease
her stepmother’s cruel whims, looking after her blind
younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts
under control — without having to deal with rumours of
monsters re-emerging in the marsh. But when a chance
encounter with an easily flustered young man named Han
brings her into contact with a secret magical liberation
organisation called the Guardians of Dawn, Zhara realises
there may be more to these rumours than she thought.
A mysterious plague is corrupting the magicians of Zanhei
and transforming them into monsters, and the Guardians
of Dawn believe a demon is responsible. In order to
restore harmony and bring peace to the world, Zhara must
discover the elemental warrior within, lest the balance
between order and chaos is lost forever.