From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a
war-ravaged world where kindling warfare?the use of elite magic-wielding teenage soldiers?has
been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel seven kindlings search for purpose and
identity as they prepare for one final battle. For fans of the classic films Seven Samurai and
The Magnificent Seven. Once the war was fought with kindlings?elite magic-wielding warriors
whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives. Now the war is over and
kindlings have been cast adrift?their magic outlawed their skills outdated their formidable
balar weapons prized only as relics and souvenirs. Violence still plagues the countryside and
memories haunt those who remain. When a village comes under threat of siege it offers an
opportunity for seven kindlings to fight one last time. But war changed these warriors. And to
reclaim who they once were they will have to battle their pasts their trauma and their grim
fates to come together again?or none of them will make it out alive. From bestselling and
award-winning author Traci Chee comes a gut-wrenching introspective fantasy about seven lost
soldiers searching for the peace they once fought for and the future in which they're finally
daring to believe.
