Shattered Souls (The Acre Trilogy Book 1)

BOOK 1 IN THE ACRE TRILOGY: A YA URBAN FANTASY SERIES

One day they would cut her open. Renie knew that much.

Renie Ward doesn’t remember anything from before they found her. Not how she ended up at the roses fencing the cemetery yard. Not about the dirt and blood that smeared her skin. Not about those two other children.

Ten years later and she’s living with the Wards, her adoptive family, and still hiding the scars riving her skin. They tell the story she’s forgotten, betray the secret that could cost her life. She only knows one thing: one day they will cut her open, and all they’ll find will be darkness.

She is a dark sorcerer, a crime in existence. Not that Renie considers herself a sorcerer. Her magic feeds off her pain, her anger and fear... and it is growing stronger.

But when she encounters the Atrate, he offers her power, a life free of fear.

It is an offer easily dismissed until her adoptive parents decide to send her to a mental hospital for her supposed anger issues, and she and Billy – her adoptive brother, her loyal protector – run away.

Renie’s scars are spreading and it is only a matter of time before someone notices the ruins she leaves in her wake. Unable to escape her fate much longer, she calls the Atrate for help.

“They will finally see you for what you truly are.”
“A monster?”
“A God.”

An unapologetic take on mental health, injustice, and sacrifice in this gritty debut about a girl condemned for her anger and the scared boy who promised to protect her.

For fans of found family, Achillean romance, and anxiety representation, all in a gothic, yet modern atmosphere.