Ashes of the Stars

Book excerpt: Aili Renault doesn't care that the modern world and billions of people died 200 years ago. She doesn't care that extremist factions rose up and created another war, but she does care that the war controls her entire life. In a world of kill or be killed, Aili fought back to survive and became what everyone knows as the Reaper. She is feared everywhere she goes, even in her own mind. When Aili meets Kieran, Kai, and Whitestrand, the ghosts of her ruthless, bloody past start fighting back. She is haunted by the memories of those lives she's destroyed and a dream that never made sense to her before. Now, with eyes wide open, will Aili be able to pull herself out of her crumbling world or will she become ashes of the stars? "Elizabeth Van Zandt writes us into the souls of her characters and introduces us to a dystopian world of clashing ideologies." -R. Lewis Wright, Author of the Shadow Strike Series