After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows
there’s no more time for lessons.
No more time for uncertainty.
Because the battle has truly begun; and with enemies closing in from outside
their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from
unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre.
The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do
anything to save what she loves - her dragons, her family, her home, and him.
Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything.
They need an army.
They need power.
They need magic.
And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth.
But a storm is coming... and not everyone can survive its wrath
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And
they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed
mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them
up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970,
pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss
Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose,
a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a
commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and
marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and
pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything
they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they
know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult
book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first
time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s
never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in
blood.
Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle
she’s inexplicably riding now.
This return doesn’t only impact Amber. Her sister, Melissa, now seven years
older, must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amber’s estranged parents are
battling over her. And the changes ripple farther and farther Amber’s friends,
boyfriend, and even people she met only once have been deeply affected by her
life and death. In the midst of everyone’s turmoil, Amber is struggling with
herself. What kind of person was she? How and why was she given this second
chance?
