Neverthorn (Of Quirks and Curses, #1)

by Shannon Mayer

I was selfish. I had to be, because nobody else but Opie cared about me. Not here, not back home. So, if I had to choose between saving the world and saving the two of us? I was going to choose me and her every time.

“And I see you’re still a raging bully with a god complex and a bad dye job. Good to know that things haven’t changed around here.” And that’s how I ended up with detention not fifteen minutes into my first day back in Neverthorn Academy.

Because the man in that picture – Nocta, the greatest evil in our world. The big bad wolf lurking around every corner. The reason I was here at Neverthorn . . . Was my father.

In the darkest hour, In the darkest days, The child with the power Shall the darkness raze. House Phoenix will rise And save those lost, The soul behind the eyes, The cost beyond the cost. In one hand the world will live, In the other a death will give Our world peace, And the darkness will cease.

“When the sky spits yellow, blue and red And all the colors but the last are dead Only four more full moons remain Before the Phoenix must rise again.”