The Origin’s Daughter, book 1Alexandra St Pierre2023

Seventeen-year-old Raven is tormented by regret as she finds herself in the principal’s office… again. This time, she was provoked into a physical altercation with another classmate— a familiar cycle she's been stuck in since elementary school. With a troubled past of being bullied, repeated suspensions, and switching schools, Raven has always struggled to maintain her temper. Particularly when dealing with the never ending abuse she seems to suffer from her peers.

Only her adoptive parents provide a safe haven in a world where she is an outcast with few friends and even fewer allies. Everything changes when a mysterious stranger who smells of the ocean enters her anger management class. This stranger upends Raven's life, uncovering a secret world of daemons, shifters, and Obeah practitioners. She is pulled into the center of it all and learns she may hold the key to stopping an impending evil.

The masters of the daemon world have finally found her, and she can no longer run from her destiny. Raven must navigate blurred lines of duty, allegiance, and love to protect those she cares about; unlikely alliances must be made to stop the pervasive darkness. This is a gripping and thrilling journey where Raven discovers the true meaning of power, sacrifice, and love.

___ "Let us walk through worlds," he whispers. "I will teach you to move planets, how to reorder the stars, to become nighttime itself, how to speak the language of the dead. I will lay your adversaries at your feet."

Titre original : The Origin’s Daughter, book 1 (2023)