(Fiction Fantasy)

Eighteen-year-old Dayanara discovers that the source of her race’s supernatural powers has more to do with legend than genetic evolution, when she stumbles into the midst of a mystical race of people—the Phoenixes.


The night before Day’s eighteenth birthday, she investigates a curious phenomenon outside her village boundary. Every night for the last two months, a strange light shoots into the air with a soul-searing cry that sounds eerily human. When she discovers a young man setting himself on fire and reduced to golden ash, she knows this being belongs to the race of her enemy—but what she doesn't understand is why he, or anyone else in his race, would self-immolate.

Her search for answers takes her on a wild adventure where she encounters new friends and a culture riddled with anomalies: emotion-obliterating Rebirths, tears that give life, and a self-healing population with inexplicable scars.

But perhaps the most surprising thing that Dayanara finds...is Dorian.

The two natural-born enemies are instantly drawn to each other, with a connection so powerful that Day believes nothing could ever sever it—until she learns the magnitude of what a Rebirth actually means for a being like Dorian.

Day soon finds herself caught in the middle of love, war, and a duty to her people.

When all three collide, she emerges—indelibly scarred—and she is set on a course that will change her life forever.