Shattered Souls

Renie Ward doesn’t remember anything from before they found. Not how she ended up at the roses fencing the cemetery yard. Not about the dirt and blood that smeared her skin. Not about those two other children. Ten years later and she’s living with the Wards, her adoptive family, and still hiding the scars riving her skin. They tell the story she’s forgotten, betray the secret that could cost her life. She only knows one thing: one day they will cut her open, and all they’ll find will be darkness. She is a dark sorcerer, a crime in existence. Not that Renie considers herself a sorcerer. Her magic feeds off her pain, her anger and fear... and it is growing stronger. But when she encounters the Atrate, he offers her power, a life free of fear. It is an offer easily dismissed until her adoptive parents decide to send her to a mental hospital for her supposed anger issues, and she and Billy – her adoptive brother, her loyal protector – run away. Renie’s scars are spreading and it is only a matter of time before someone notices the ruins she leaves in her wake. Unable to escape her fate much longer, she calls the Atrate for help.