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Ember (The Wings of War # 1) by Karen Ann Hopkins
Expected Publication: October 21, 2014
There are descendants of angels walking among us. Ember is one of them. And she may be the only hope mankind has as the rapture approaches and evil rises.
Embers is an epic paranormal adventure about an eighteen year old girl who discovers that she's immune to fire and any other injury when she’s in a horrific car crash that kills her parents. Following a violent episode with her aunt's boyfriend, Ember flees Ohio to live with an old relative in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Ember's exuberance at escaping a bad home life soon turns to trepidation when she finds out that she's a Watcher, a descendant of angels. While Ember learns about her heritage and the powers that go along with it, she strikes up friendships with two young men who live in a frightening walled compound in the forest. Inexplicitly drawn to one of the men in particular, an impossible romance develops. But it is cut short when Ember discovers that her new friends are fighting on the opposite side of a war—one that’s been raging between two factions of Watchers for thousands of years. When the compound’s inhabitants threaten the townspeople, Ember takes action, sealing her fate in the ancient battle of good versus evil—and the grayness in between. Ember is up to the challenge, until she realizes that she isn’t only fighting for the lives of the locals and the souls of her new friends. She also might be one of the few champions who will make a stand for all of mankind as the rapture approaches and the end of days begin.
Embers is a dark and gritty YA novel that’s the first book in the series, The Wings of War.
Ember Teaser
Sawyer sobered quickly.
The obvious hurt on his face made me regret my words.
“You’re right. I’m a monster. I won’t argue on that account. But your kind isn’t squeaky clean
either. Just because your ancestors were
arch angels doesn’t give you the right to police the world.” His eyes narrowed. “Do you know how many
humans have died from wars that Watchers caused?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking
about,” I lied.
I was already suspicious about
Watchers. Ila scared the crap out of me
sometimes with her demeanor and righteous words.
But
Sawyer didn’t need to know that I questioned the Watchers myself. His opinion didn’t count.
When I turned back to him, ready to
change the subject, I wasn’t prepared for the darkening of his already almost
black eyes. He leaned in closer and our
breaths mingled. In and out I breathed,
allowing his familiar woodsy scent to fill my nose. I know Sawyer. Oh, I know him.
Don’t
do it, Ember.
But I couldn’t stop.
When he kissed me, my lips parted
automatically.
Deep down, I wanted him, desired him
madly, and had from the first time I’d seen him in my dreams.
And
in that instant, I didn’t care that he was a Demon.
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About Karen Ann Hopkins:
A native of New York State, Karen Ann Hopkins now lives with her family on a farm in northern Kentucky, where her neighbors in all directions are members of a strict Amish community. Her unique perspective became the inspiration for the story of star-crossed lovers Rose and Noah. When she’s not homeschooling her kids, giving riding lessons or tending to a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and cats, she is dreaming up her next romantic novel.
Oh this sounds good. I always like my YA on the darker side, and Ember sounds like she is about to go on the adventure of her life!
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