Ember

Riley Parker never thinks she is more than the girl no one wants. After her mother's death, Riley spends a year being tossed from one foster home to another. Each new family soon grows to fear her. When she lands in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, she finds more than a strange family to take her in. She receives odd gifts a week before her birthday. One of these gifts begins to explain what makes her strange. What makes her dangerous.

She learns she is part of a magical world she never could have imagined. The magic kingdom has been blocked off and frozen in time, but Riley is the key to returning and restoring it. Riley must learn to tame the wild magic brewing within her. She must figure out how to open up a path to the magic kingdom before the defenseless are slaughtered. There are magics in our world, two opposing sides that want Riley to join them and help them return. Riley must choose who to believe. But when everyone has a dark side, who do you trust?