num_pages: 354
description: Make a way out of no way is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue's taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew forced to leave her little sister behind and whisked away to Ghizona hidden island of magic wielders.Rue is the only half-god half-human there where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mothers death Rue breaks Ghizons sacred Do Not Leave Law and returns to Houston only to discover that Black kids are being forced into crime and violence. And her sister Tasha is in danger of falling sway to the very forces that claimed their mothers life.Worse still evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizonan evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves. Rue must embrace her true identity and wield the full magnitude of her ancestors power to save her neighborhood before the gods burn it to the ground.
language: English
title: Wings of Ebony
publisher: Denene Millner Books