Fire to the Stars

Serpent & Dove meets Fourth Wing in this pulse-pounding YA fantasy debut. In the kingdom of Florent, anyone can succumb to the Ignition—a monthly solar event where the sun god’s magic turns an unlucky human into a vicious dragon. Haunted by his failure to find a cure for his little brother, Abel Estellio knows firsthand that slayer families are just as vulnerable to the curse. The only relic from his previous life is an incomplete research journal. With his name now synonymous with disaster, Abel is broke and desperate for work. When gossip of the journal reaches Claire Belgard, she abandons her sisterhood of thieves to find him. A slayer who tried to save a dragon? Blasphemous—but his taboo is a hope she can’t ignore. She believes Abel’s research is her only chance to cure her curse and end her reliance on a life of crime. The problem is, he’s hunting again. So she feeds him a false lead on a dragon to test whether she can trust him with her secret, or whether she must turn to the crime she dreads most—murder—to steal the journal and hope the contents are enough to save herself. When her con derails into a dangerous discovery at the heart of the curse, Claire and Abel must break every rule designed to protect them from their enemies to survive and find redemption. But the next Ignition is coming, and if Claire transforms into a dragon again, even love can't save them from the deadliest threat of all: each other.