Unbound (Confluence Academy, 1) Emily Habeck and Rocky the Saw-whet Owl

and Rocky the Saw-whet Owl

she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

ever since he abandoned her and her mother to join the resistance

magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria

Caught in a whirl of rumors and a rift with her twin

Unbound (Confluence Academy, 1) Emily Habeck and Rocky the Saw-whet OwlNineteen year old Nessa Thorne expects death when she volunteers for Empire's selection. Instead, she's thrust into Confluence Academy, where students harness elemental magic and bond powerful beastsfrom wolves to ancient dragonsforging themselves into the Empire's most lethal weapons. Students are branded by water, air, earth, or fire. But Nessas mark is different. A silver spiralthe mark of an unbound. Its a power so dangerous her kind were hunted