FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF YA FANTASY ROMANCE LANNE GARRETT

Book one in the Siphons and Souls series

Everyone dies, but in Averroes, Affinity children die first.

Surrounded by a darkle that claims every man, woman and child, the once-great nation of Averroes has been plunged into chaos for nearly a century. In a realm at war with creatures of Umbra, the kingdoms of Averroes spare no expense in winning this war, including the taking and imprisonment of Affinities. Now, the fate of this dying nation rests on the shoulders of the one they've locked away.

Like every Affinity before her, Siphon, Nola Rathmore, has been taken from everything she has ever known and forced into training at the Institute, under threat of death of her and her sister. There, she discovers the true depth of her Affinity and the cost of this dark secret. Fated to walk the path of the dark prophecy, Nola learns she is destined to end the Umbra war. But first, she must survive the Institute, protect her secret, and keep her twin alive. Treachery, corruption and danger haunt the halls of the Institute, and Nola must strengthen her Affinity if she ever hopes to save herself and those she loves. Ready or not, the last war is coming, and Nola's dark Affinity is all that stands between Umbra and the destruction of the world as they know it.