A Magic Fierce and Bright

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A young technomancer teams up with a handsome thief to save her sister in this adrenaline-charged fantasy steeped in Indian mythology with political intrigue, found family, and nonstop action (Shelf Awareness) perfect for fans of Gearbreakers and Iron Widow.

Adya wants nothing more than to be left alone. Content to be loyal to no one but herself in the isolated jungles of South India, she dreams only of finding her lost sister, Priya, and making enough money to take care of their family. Its too bad that her rare ability to wake electric machinesusing the magic that wiped them out five centuries agoalso makes her a coveted political pawn. Everyone seems to believe that her technomancy can help them win the endless war for control over the magics supernatural source.

These senseless power struggles mean little to Adya. But when her enemies dangle news of her sister before her, shes all too quick to leap at the chance to bring Priya homeeven if it means teaming up with a rakish, disreputable thief in order to do it. With the threat of invasion looming ever larger on the horizon, Adya must reconcile the kind of person she is with the kind of person she wants to be and untangle the web of intrigue, conspiracy, and deceit that threatens to take all of India down with it.

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Hemant Nayak is a writer of fantasy stories with a bit of heart and joy and a lot of the strange. He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest. In his free time, he runs around the deep woods with his dogs, strums guitar in a garage band, and even plays Dungeons & Dragons with friends. When hes not writing, he shifts to his alternate life as an ER doctor. Find out more about him at HemantNayak.com.