Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)

by Penn Cole

But I was made of swinging fists and rash words, my edges too jagged and my temper too hot. Nothing about me was delicate.

And I didn’t want gentle or delicate. I wanted to burn.

“In all of mortal history, violence is the only thing that’s ever worked. Every right that we have, we’ve had to scrape and claw and kill for. People with power don’t give it away out of the kindness of their hearts. They do it when we leave them no other choice. When they fear what we’ll do to them if they don’t.