The Stone Bearers

Fifteen-year-old Ashira just received the worst coming-of-age prophecy imaginable. After years dreaming of oceans, princes, and fairies, she expected to hear the words that would finally whisk her away from her ordinary desert village. Instead Ashira hears, “you will live a life of no renown.” Ashira sets out to the great city of magicians to learn how to free herself from an uneventful life as a potter's daughter. But there is a darkness that is bent on altering the balance of the universe. Can Ashira fight her fate and stop the forces that threaten to destroy all she holds dear?