The Ascended (The Aesymarean Duet, #1)

by Bree Grenwich

"Could be," I said instead, letting enough dryness into my voice that anyone with half a brain would catch my meaning. Unfortunately, this one seemed to be running on a quarter.

Those divisions created the first political factions among the Twelve—traditionalists versus reformists. Those who would destroy what they fear versus those who would understand it."

She hugged me quickly. "Don't die before you become immortal, okay? Would be terribly anticlimactic."