Ember

Betrayal. Suffering. Disaster.

"I never thought myself to be very strange."

All Kallista Graye can remember is driving, highway, mother, and then burning, metal, blood... And then, nothing.
Institutionalized after the sudden and unexplained death of her mother, Kallista is returned to the world with no memory of the accident, nor an explanation for why she's suddenly haunted by terrifying dreams that leave their mark by ways of cuts and burns across her body.
But then she meets a boy. A boy who knew her mother, a boy who - for some reason - has the very bracelet her mother was buried with, and gives it to Kallista.
Being chosen by the ohm meant power, but it also meant Kallista's soul was now promised to a faceless Council of God as an instrument in their fight to keep the balance between light and dark at bay.
Kallista will quickly learn that in this new and terrifying world, that all those nightmares about demons and hellfire were only glimpses into the way the world really is, and if Kallista doesn't learn how to use magic, she'll just become another statistic in a long line of dead girls.

This work of fiction contains some themes and scenes that may be distressing or upsetting for some readers. Reader discretion is advised.