11.11.2015 - By Bryan Cohen and Robert Scanlon: YA Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors
Hayley Lawson is once again filling in for Bryan. Will this be the ember in the ashes of another fiery episode? You betcha!
An Ember in the Ashes is by Sabaa Tahir.
Laia, 17, discovers her brother, Darin is working for The Resistance, when a raid of Martials - the Scholar's enemy and oppressor - sees her grandmother and grandfather brutally slaughtered in front of her and her brother. Scared for her life, she runs at her brother's insistence, only to be caught by a dreaded Mask, one of Blackcliff's elite trained warriors.
But the Mask lets her go, leaving his chilling words etched in her mind: "Run, little girl."
With Darin her only family, Laia resolves to find him and free him.
But how can she do that when everything and everyone is against her?