M C Aquila

The Changeling's Fortune M C Aquila

When seventeen-year-old orphan Deirdre moves to Neo-London, a city created after an attack by Unseelie faeries, she is caught in the tension between the city faeries and the Iron Guard, a faction of the military. After having her fortune told, Deirdre develops uncontrollable magical abilities-making her the target of Alan Callaghan, an extreme anti-faery general. His sons, Iain and James, cross paths with Deirdre and are pushed towards the opposite sides of the conflict between humans and Fae. Iain is a rookie soldier in the Iron Guard trying to atone for past mistakes and keep his family together. James is a fourteen-year-old aspiring scholar fascinated by faeries and eager to leave his life in the city behind. As Alan conspires to control the city, Deirdre and James plot to leave, seeking answers about her magic and James's disappeared mother. However, when Deirdre is framed for a treasonous crime, their quest for answers becomes a desperate quest for freedom. The Changeling's Fortune is the first installment in the six-book YA Urban Fantasy series, Winter's Blight.