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Zhara
A Young Adult Fantasy Novel by S. Jae-Jones
Book 1 of the Guardians of Dawn Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Fairy Tale Retelling,
- Forbidden Magic,
- Magical Resistance,
- Chosen One,
- Elemental Magic
This book is for you if you're into...
- Magical girls fighting secret battles in lush fantasy worlds
- Heroines juggling family burdens with hidden powers
- Underground societies challenging unjust magical laws
Sailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy series from S. Jae-Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Wintersong.
Magic flickers. Love flames. Chaos reigns.
Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called an abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before.
Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about—appeasing her stepmother's cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts under control—without having to deal with rumors of monsters re-emerging in the marsh.
But when a chance encounter with an easily flustered young man named Han brings her into contact with a secret magical liberation organization called the Guardians of Dawn, Zhara realizes there may be more to these rumors than she thought.
A mysterious plague is corrupting the magicians of Zanhei and transforming them into monsters, and the Guardians of Dawn believe a demon is responsible.
In order to restore harmony and bring peace to the world, Zhara must discover the elemental warrior within, lest the balance between order and chaos is lost forever.
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