Blood Scion
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âEqual parts soaring fantasy, heart-pounding action, and bloody social commentary, Blood Scion is a triumph of a book.â âRoseanne A. Brown, New York Times bestselling author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
 This is what they deserve.
They wanted me to be a monster.
I will be the worst monster they ever created.
Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at willâshe is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods.
Under the Lucisâ brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. But when she is forcibly conscripted into the Lucis army on her fifteenth birthday, Sloane sees a new opportunity: to overcome the bloody challenges of Lucis training, and destroy them from within.
Following one girlâs journey of magic, injustice, power, and revenge, Deborah Falayeâs debut novel, inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology, is a magnetic combination of Children of Blood and Bone and An Ember in the Ashes.
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Deborah Falaye is a Nigerian Canadian young adult author. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where she spent her time devouring African Literature, pestering her grandma for folktales, and tricking her grandfather into watching Passions every night. When sheâs not writing about fierce Black girls with bad-ass magic, she can be found obsessing over all things reality TV. Deborah currently lives in Toronto with her husband and their partner-in-crime yorkie, Major. Blood Scion is her first novel.
