There are those that tell stories about the legends of the Shadow Forest, of magical waters that grant your deepest desires, and of times long ago when ancient sorcerers wielded unnatural power.

After the death of her family and the appearance of strange physical changes she cannot explain, seventeen-year-old Nyla begins to wonder if she might be cursed with magic herself. Without a home and longing for the family she's lost, Nyla retreats into herself.

But when her new plan for answers brings her to a crossroads with a fellow traveler named Xander-whose own painful past is also a mystery-Nyla must decide if she can trust a stranger. But even if she can learn to trust, could her very connection to Xander place them both in peril?

With an ominous force gaining power in Nyla's homeland, she must choose how far she is willing to go to find answers when not only her fate-but possibly all of Tenebris-depends on it.

Fire & Flight is Brianna R. Shaffery's debut novel and the first novel in the epic young adult Fantasy trilogy Heirs of Tenebris.