New Moon

Oran is simmering with tension...

Two hung red years ago, the Fire Queen destroyed her rival queens of Earth, Air, and Water in the fateful Burning and took power over the land. No child with a trace of the elemental magic was allowed to live. Years later, the country of Oran still trembles under her oppression. There is unrest in the city -- and, for the first time in decades, rumors of hope. They say that four young women bearing the ancient magic escaped -- four who have the powers of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air -- and are even now finding one another.

These four have allies. A ragtag army of artists and singers, orphans and vagrants, thieves and knife-wielders, is stealing into the city. Their sign is scrawled on the tavern walls: the bloodred, blade-thin New Moon. . . .