A Flash of Fire

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>2025 Best Series Bronze Medalist Moonbeam Children's Book Awards</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>2025 Best Audiobook 1st Place Royal Dragonfly Book Awards</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>First Place Gertrude Warner Award for Middle Grade Fiction</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>She didn't mean to burn down the gym. That was just the beginning.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Vivian Carmine always knew she was different. She just didn't know she was a phoenix. When her powers ignite at the worst possible moment her parents reveal a world of hidden myth and folklore - then vanish before they can explain anything else.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Following the only lead she has Vivian lands at RISE - a secret academy in Seattle where demigods fairies and fabled creatures train to blend into the human world. But spy school has its own rules its own dangers and its own secrets. And not everyone there wants her to find her parents.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Armed with science stubbornness and a growing flame she's still learning to control Vivian forges unlikely alliances - including with Samael the sharp-edged son of Hades himself whose loyalties are harder to read than any textbook. When the clues point straight to the Underworld Vivian doesn't wait for permission. She goes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Getting in is easier than getting out - and getting out costs more than she bargained for.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A fun adventure that skillfully blends magic friendship and teenage angst.</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Readers who enjoy school fantasies and Greek myth will be eager for more.</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>BookLife by Publishers Weekly</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A Flash of Fire</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> a Gertrude Warner Award-winning series starter is packed with mythology found family and one fierce girl determined to save the world - before it goes up in flames. Book One of the Moonbeam Award-winning Best Series </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Phoenix Rising Trilogy</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>.</span></p>