Zhara by S. Jae-Jones

Zhara by S. Jae-JonesSailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy series from S. Jae Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Wintersong. Magic flickers. Love flames. Chaos reigns. Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry aboutappease her stepmothers cruel

and the fragile optimism of love

Liesel's world is both opened up

With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn

and she walked all over his heart in stiletto heels and left it bleeding out on a bright summer day

As rebellion and dark forces swirl around her

but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams

a dark magical hold Knnot Mountain unleashed over her village

the Oracle Queen

poor timing

And I’m not about to let this be the first

As attempts on his life are made

Even as it gets harder to pretend her heart doesn't flip every time he's in the room