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, everyone is born with wings, though not all the clans
are treated equally. Ellie Meadows longed to become a Goldwing--the
knights who protect the people--but because she came from the humble
Sparrow Clan, her dream faced almost insurmountable 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 mysterious
betrayal made hundreds of years ago. Nox has had to steal and scrape
just to survive, but a single goal has kept him going, even when 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.
But there's more to Nox's story than even he realizes, a secret that's
been kept buried for centuries. And the king of the Clandoms himself is
so desperate to conceal it that he's sent a ruthless assassin after Nox
and his friends.
The four young fugitives must watch every shadow. If they aren't
careful, they'll be cut down before they can rescue anyone .