Fire and Bone

Gr 10 Up—Sage reluctantly agrees to attend a house party where not all is as it seems. Living on the streets, dirty and disheveled, Sage is determined to make good use of the invitation, until she realizes this promising request is a trap. Kidnapped from the party and taken by a man with the strength of an ox, Sage is told of her reality: she is a demigoddess, daughter of the Goddess Brighid. Her true powers will be awakened by her 18th birthday, which is when she will declare her allegiance to one of the powerful houses of the Otherborn. Given training by Faelan, a hunter now tasked as her protector, Sage must soon declare her allegiance to one of the houses: Brighid, Lyr, Cernunnos, Morrigan, and Arwen. There is a darkness surrounding her and danger targeting those she now considers family. Poisonous trinkets disguised as gifts, Otherborns who are not what they seem, and strange dreams that plague Sage all point to a larger conspiracy, one that is left for Sage and Faelan to uncover before destruction reigns down on them all. The author creates a world full of pixies, witches, and wraiths that lingers in plain sight yet is still glamoured in shadow from humans. Although Sage seems to readily accept her newfound parentage quickly, the character's conflicts with Faelan create the tensions necessary to propel the story forward to its surprising end, setting up the next book in the series.