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Guardians of Dawn by S. Jae-Jones

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Guardians of Dawn, August 2024
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Guardians of Dawn, September 2023
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GUARDIANS OF DAWN
By: S. Jae-Jones

Zhara

Guardians of Dawn #1
St. Martin's Press
September 2023
On Sale: August 29, 2023
384 pages
ISBN: 1250191424
EAN: 9781250191427
Kindle: B0B9KWRL5G
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Young Adult | Fantasy Epic

Sailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy series from S. Jae-Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Wintersong.

Magic flickers.
Love flames.
Chaos reigns.

Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called an abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before.

Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about—appeasing her stepmother’s cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts under control—without having to deal with rumors of monsters re-emerging in the marsh. But when a chance encounter with an easily flustered young man named Han brings her into contact with a secret magical liberation organization called the Guardians of Dawn, Zhara realizes there may be more to these rumors than she thought. A mysterious plague is corrupting the magicians of Zanhei and transforming them into monsters, and the Guardians of Dawn believe a demon is responsible.

In order to restore harmony and bring peace to the world, Zhara must discover the elemental warrior within, lest the balance between order and chaos is lost forever.