The Cult of the Watchers has beaten Alex at every turn, leaving her bloody and broken, but everyone depends on Firebird Alex to be their champion. There's no amount of torment she won't endure to succeed. She won't fail her friends and those she's sworn to protect. She won’t waste her second chance.
Orren Merton started writing fantasy and science ction at an embarrass- ingly young age, mostly for his own amusement. In high school, he listened to a lot of dark and moody rock, which inspired him to pick up guitar and start playing up and down California in a few bands, culminating in his Industrial rock group Ember After. During that time, magazines, developers, and corporations began to pay him to write and edit music software related articles, manuals, and books. Since then he has written the urban fantasy novel e Deviant and the science ction novel Skye Entity before working on his current series, e Sedumen Chronicles. He lives in Southern California with his family, pets, collection of sci- /fantasy memorabilia, and curiously large stu ed animal collection.