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—Caster of Pods, CraftLit.com—Writer of books, WWMDfK.com and GroundedSeries.com—teacher of things— Heather Ordover bounced from Hollywood and Disney Feature Animation to teaching high school English in New York City, to an adjunct professorship. After winning awards in her last two positions she figured her motto “teach to the joke” was working. So, in 2006 she got a mic and taught herself to edit and post audio in the form of CraftLit — the annotated audiobook podcast. Ten years, 26 books, dozens of short stories, and millions of downloads later, it looks like she made the right decision. Working every day with books eventually led to a book of her own: Grounded, which rapidly made clear that it intended to be a three-book series. Heather lives, teaches, and writes in Eastern PA with her bemused husband, two goofy sons, sly cat, a few frogs, and far too many devoted mosquitoes.

Hannah Rose was able to convince herself that she was a normal teenager, even though she usually knew exactly what was about to happen next. Until one day when she set her jerk of an ex-boyfriend on fire—from 15 feet away—propelling herself into a world of weirdness. Rosie is sent to live with her aunt in Brooklyn. There, Rosie discovers a family legacy of strange abilities and dangerous talents. Her training tests her gifts—and her patience—but over the summer she does begin to learn to control her unique skills and meets a boy with equally dangerous strengths. Together, they find a sort of peace that neither has ever experienced, and it looks like it will last—until disaster breaks them apart in a way neither saw coming.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy