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A teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance.Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She'd rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all that changed when her sister was murdered - and Zephyr used a forbidden dark power to save herself from the same fate. On the run from a punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend upends Zephyr's world - and not only because her old friend has grown surprisingly, extremely hot. It seems that Zephyr might just be the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance: for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is supposed to change that.
About the Author
Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , the middle-grade novels Star Wars, Flight of the Falcon: Lando's Luck and Spark of the Resistance, a Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm Books) , and the fantasy young adult novels Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows (both Simon and Schuster) . Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in the anthologies A Phoenix First Must Burn (Viking BFYR) , Feral Youth (Simon and Schuster) , Black Enough (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , Three Sides of a Heart (HarperCollins) , and online at Vox.com. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University (now Georgia Southern) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Her forthcoming book, Ophie's Ghosts, will be available May 2021.
