Melissa Grey’s Website
Beneath
the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with
feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments
keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who
survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are
the only family she’s ever known.
Echo
is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she’s
fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home,
she decides it’s time to act.
Legend
has it that there is a way to end the conflict once and for all: find the
Firebird, a mythical entity believed to possess power the likes of which the
world has never seen. It will be no easy task, but if life as a thief has taught
Echo anything, it’s how to hunt down what she wants…and how to take it.
But
some jobs aren’t as straightforward as they seem. And this one might just set
the world on fire.
Maria Dahvana Headley’s Website
Since
she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it
ever harder for her to breathe, to speak – to live.
So
when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a
cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn’t think this is a
hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
Only
her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who’s always been there. Jason, for
whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider
that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world –
and found, by another. Magonia. Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships,
Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was.
In
Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power –
and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia
and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of
the whole of humanity – including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties
lie?
Salt & Stone (Fire & Flood #2) (cover
not final) (Releases February 2015) on
Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble
Victoria Scott’s Website
Fire
& Flood Summary:
Time
is slipping away…
Tella
Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can’t
determine what’s wrong, her parents decide to move to Montana for the fresh
air. She’s lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, and her brother
is dying – and she’s helpless to change anything.
Until
she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the
Brimstone Bleed. It’s an epic race actoss jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain
that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother’s
illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and
there’s no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.
The
jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can’t trust the
allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in
the first place?
