Cirrus@Austlit

'“We are a proud people, from an ancient lineage. We may be lovers of peace, but we know when to fight for it!” Imara raised her fist. “You wondered if the people who hurt you will pay for it? Hear me now. They will pay.”

'Kat’s grandmother seems determined to wrest Kat away from her Taberin friends and allies and bring her back into the family fold a family of untold power stretching back centuries. Kat refuses … but her grandmother isn’t someone who takes no for an answer.

'As the hybrid refugees flee the attacks by the Directorate and converge en masse in Paris, and the Families of Power gather their forces across the western world, Kat is fighting her own battle. Her grandmother’s disclosure of her true family heritage has changed everything, and now Kat finds herself heir to not one, but two warring dynasties …' (Publication summary)