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Request ARC accessIn Taiamen, where worth is measured by bloodline, and power is held by the elite, an outsider carries the spark that can shatter an empire built on cruelty and silence.
Kenna Tetanui has spent her life unseen, forced to protect her siblings from her adoptive father. Her world is one of endless work, sacrifice, and bruises, until one day, rage burns hotter than her fear, and light erupts from her body, forcing her and her best friend, Zander, to escape.
Now hunted by the government, Kenna discovers she's not just any Conjurer—she's a Dominum, the first in five hundred years to wield all four elements.
But Kenna doesn’t feel powerful; instead she feels like a woman with ashes and guilt on her hands. Haunted by fear of what she is and what she must become, Kenna must choose whether to keep running from her power or embrace it—even if it consumes her.
poverty, abandonment, adoption abuse, anxiety, self-harm, sex work and sex slavery, child abuse, violence, trauma, death and dying, sexism and misogyny, classism, torture, gambling addiction, starvation and dehydration, disappearance of a loved one, kidna