How do you fight fire without fire? When a freak storm uncovers the entrance to a mysterious underground chamber, Ivy and Martin expect to find treasure. But what they discover is even more valuable: a barrow full of sleeping spriggans, magically preserved for centuries. With the vengeful piskey queen Betony determined to capture Ivy and her followers, the secret hideaway could be key to both their peoples' survival. But the piskeys and spriggans are ancient enemies, and when Ivy tries to make peace her own followers threaten to turn against her. Plagued by treachery, betrayal and desertion on every side, Ivy must find a way to unite the magical folk of Cornwall-or doom herself, Martin and everyone she loves to death at Betony's hand. Yet without the legendary fire-wielding power that marks a true piskey queen, can Ivy convince her people to believe?

Torch - The Flight and Flame Trilogy, #3

Cast into exile, she must return to free her people. Banished from her underground home by Betony, the queen of the Cornish piskeys, young Ivy sets out to forge a new life for herself in the world above. But a deadly threat lingers in the mine, and Ivy cannot bear to see her people suffer while Betony refuses to believe. Somehow she must convince the queen to let them go. Her mission only becomes more complicated when Ivy starts to dream of the ancient battles between her ancestors and the spriggan folk. Who is the strange boy in her visions? Could her glimpses of his past help Ivy find a new home for her fellow piskeys?To find the answers, Ivy must outfly vicious predators, outwit cunning enemies, and overcome her own greatest fears. And when evil threatens the people Ivy loves best, it will take all her courage, faith, and determination to save them.

Nomad - The Flight and Flame Trilogy, #2

To save her people, a wingless girl must learn to fly. As a piskey girl born without wings and raised underground, Ivy yearns for flight almost as much as she misses her long-lost mother. But the world outside the Delve is full of danger, and her dreams seem hopeless until she meets a mysterious faery who makes her an enticing offer: If Ivy helps him escape the Delve's dungeon, he'll teach her how to fly. Freeing Richard could cost Ivy her reputation, perhaps even her life. But when her fellow piskeys start to disappear and her beloved little sister goes missing, Ivy has no choice but to take the risk. Deadly threats and shocking revelations await Ivy as she ventures into a strange new world, uncovers long-buried secrets about her family's past, and finds that no one-not even herself-is entirely what they seem.

Swift - The Flight and Flame Trilogy, #1

J'ai vu l'univers entier disposé devant moi, une vaste machine brillante de beauté et de complexité indescriptibles. Son design était trop complexe pour que je puisse comprendre, et je savais que je ne pouvais jamais commencer à comprendre plus que la plus petite idée de son objectif. Mais j'ai senti que chaque partie de celui-ci, de Quark à Quasar, était unique et - d'une manière mystérieuse - importante.

Je ne serais peut-être pas prêt à verser mes sentiments au monde, mais j'en avais assez d'essayer de les ignorer.

J'ai alors réalisé que même si j'étais un petit grain dans un cosmos infini, un blip sur la chronologie de l'éternité, je n'étais pas sans but. Et tant que j'avais une partie dans la musique des sphères, même si ce n'était qu'une seule note de grâce, je n'étais pas sans valeur. Je ne le faisais pas non plus.

Mais il y avait des choses pires que la déception, et j'avais déjà vécu plusieurs d'entre elles.

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