Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to this soaring fantasy series. In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high.
In the Clandoms, every person is born with wings, along with the ability to fly. But there has always been one deadly restriction to this gift -- a rule that must never be broken. Flying in cloudy skies summons gargols, vicious stone monsters that will tear any poor trespassers apart.
History doesn't tell where the gargols came from, or why they're so intent on punishing those who soar too high. But now Ellie Meadows thinks she knows why. An aspiring knight turned wanted fugitive, Ellie has seen the truth with her own eyes. The Clandoms' history has been taken from them, along with their ancestral homes.
Only one person can return the Clandoms back where they belong. Nox Hatcher is the key to the skies, if only Ellie can get him to believe it.
Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to this soaring fantasy series. In a world where everyoneis born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high.
In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, though not all the clans are treated equally. Ellie Meadows longed to become aGoldwing -- the knights who protect the people -- but because she came from the humble Sparrow Clan, her dream faced almostinsurmountable resistance.Nox Hatcher has it even worse. Nox is a Crow, a shattered clan. They can't own businesses or run organizations, all due to amistake made hundreds of years ago. Nox has had to steal and scrape just to survive, but a single goal has kept him going, evenwhen it felt like all the Clandoms were against him. Years ago, his mother was imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit.Now, finally, Nox is going to save her.
In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, with tight-knit communities formed around bird types: Jay, Falcon, Crow.
Ellie Meadows dreams of growing up to join the Goldwings -- the famed knights who defend all the people of the Clandoms. It was
a Goldwing, after all, who saved her life on that terrible day her parents were killed. There's just one problem: Ellie is a Sparrow,
and the Goldwings are almost invariably picked from the higher clans like Eagles and Ospreys. This rigid hierarchy means that
Ellie is destined to become a farmer.
Determined to honor her parents' memories and prove herself worthy of the Goldwings, Ellie sets out on her own for the capital.
But her journey will be dangerous. Foul creatures called gargols lurk behind every cloud, ready to slay anyone unlucky enough to
be caught outside in a storm -- just as Ellie's family was.
Soon her path intertwines with a colorful band of fellow outcasts, each with their own aspirations... and their own secrets. Ellie's
new friends offer not just roadside companionship. They'll challenge her ideas of right, wrong, and what truly makes a hero.
Sirin, Allie, and Joss have joined forces with the legendary silver dragon Lysander, the only creature capable of opening portals
between the two worlds. But the powerful Lennix clan is following the children's every move and will stop at nothing to capture
Lysander. After generations of plotting, the Lennixes-and their bloodthirsty dragon allies, the Raptors-are terrifyingly close to
establishing a brutal dragon regime on Earth, just like they did centuries ago.
Now, it's up to Allie, Joss, and Sirin to protect Lysander while searching for a secret source of lost dragon magic, the only force
powerful enough to stop the Raptor. But when their search takes them to one of the largest cities on Earth, the new friends must
decide what's more important: finding the missing treasure or guarding the most important secret in the world-that dragons have
returned to Earth. . . and not all of them have good intentions.
