Chosen Children by Jenny Raveling

Her whole life she believed it was a fable. But it was true. In six months, the fate of the universe would rest in the hands of five eighteen-year-olds desperately searching for an adult to take over.

Accompanied by her moody brother-in-law, Aella found herself in the great clan of Rhaelyn in the year of the Sun. Stuck in the home of Eddington Ryder and his neurotic nephew, Carrick, Aella loathed everything about her new living conditions and the absurd arrogance Rhaelyn held. She planned to leave…until Summer Solstice changed everything. Not only for her but also for Carrick.

Carrick’s main concern was not destroying the social standing he’d worked so hard to obtain. Those from Murnad weren’t on the same level as Rhaelyn. Or that’s what he thought until he was forced to think through everything he’d been taught in order to understand if it had all been lies.

And it had been.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

He searched for an adult, but none would come. They were the Sun, and Winter Solstice had begun.

The only visible colors were in the clothes on their back. Greyscale shrouded everything from blades of grass to the reflection of the atmosphere. In the sky, the sun and moon collided into a dizzying light barring the difference between day and night.

Hope of ever seeing normalcy again revolved entirely around five teenagers defeating seven Masters—millennium-old beings with carefully constructed powers to manipulate memories, warp fears into reality, prey on emotions, and drive the subconscious into insanity.

Maybe if that was all, they would’ve been able to succeed, but the Aether—the only being capable of taking down a Master—walked the earth as a living ghost, holding no emotions other than an unquenching belief that her being alive was an imbalance of Fate itself.