Marit Unsanctioned - Storms, L. Ryan

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Résumé :
L. Ryan Storms is a writer, photographer, traveler, and dreamer. She's a member of the Eastern Pennsylvania chapter of SCBWI and the Alliance of Independent Authors. She has written articles featured on the front page of local newspapers, but mostly she writes novels near and dear to her heart. She holds a B.S. in Marine Science from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Business Administration from Marist College, but writing young adult fantasy has always beenher true passion.Her first young adult novel, A Thousand Years to Wait, placed first in the Young Adult category in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards and was an award-winning finalist in American Book Fest's 2019 Best Book Awards. Most recently, Temper the Dark was a finalist in both the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards OZMA division for Fantasy Fiction and the Young Adult Category of the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.Storms lives in Pennsylvania with her cancer-survivor husband, two children, and a rescue zoo of ever-changing furry and feathered animals. When she's not writing, reading, or keeping her teens in line, she enjoys hiking, photography, and planning the next big adventure....

Sommaire:
As an Unsanctioned, sixteen-year-old Marit Tempi-Himche spends her days in hiding and her nights working the land of her mothers' farm, but her many years of hiding prove futile when the Guard discovers Marit's existence and she's hauled to the auction cells to be sold to the highest bidder. She ends up in the hands of a councilman's daughter who's soon to be wed to Greyson Kencharo, an eighteen-year-old in line to nab the keystone seat on a powerful council that rules Aktaria and keeps the rebellious colonies and their magic-wielding citizens in line. Before the union can be approved, Greyson and his bride must pick blindly from a variety of vials containing phenomenal powers, and the vials they choose must consist of complementary gifts. In a freak accident, Marit-not the councilman's daughter-ends up with complementary powers to Greyson's gift. Now someone on the council wants them dead. Thrust into the middle of an ongoing war between the council and the rebel colonies who want to use them to reclaim independence, Marit, Greyson, and a misfit crew of friends are on the run in a race to discover the truth behind the council's long, bloody history and the power behind their gifts. The unlikely pair must make a choice. What they learn could reshape the future for the better...if they can stay alive long enough to tell their story....