Beyond the Red Forest (The Firebird's Gift #1)
Alex Hayes
Disposable in the eyes of her father, the king, Zera is assigned the dangerous task of unlocking a remote tower on the other side of their poisoned kingdom.
There, she will find replacement energy cells urgently needed to power their biospheric home, the City of Reflections. But Zera knows her only value to the mission is that of a biological “key.”
Master Nikolai doesn’t relish teaching Zera self-defense to prepare her for the mission. It frustrates him that her bodyguard, Wills, and best friend, Clara, treat her like she’s made of glass. Unlike them, Nik will be relentless until Zera fends for herself…because he has skin in this game and a plan of his own to protect.
When her father gives Zera a life or death deadline and full responsibility for the mission’s success, everything changes.
If she fails to return with the energy cells before her twenty-first birthday, the king will shut down life support to the lower levels of the city to conserve power. His decision threatens the lives of thousands, including the surrogate family she can’t contemplate losing.
A disastrous start to her mission and the unexpected appearance of Nik and Clara leave Zera wondering who she can trust.
And when her hatred for the man who abused her on the training floor turns to passion, Zera finds herself blazing trails through the dangerous world beyond the Red Forest, a land fraught with love, friendship and betrayal.
Note, as the first in an epic series, this book ends with a cliff-hanger.
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