BlackFyre: Shattered Shards Kindle Edition

Book I, The Shattered Shards, is a contemporary dark fantasy about the daughter of the Seelie Queen and Goblyn King, passing as a human girl in San Francisco, whose life detonates the night she finally lets herself care about someone.Branwen is the secret heir carrying a sentient apocalyptic fire, BlackFyre, inside her, kept barely in check by an ancient talisman called the Wayfairer. After a quiet year of passing as a mortal student, walking home through Mission District fog with her new best friend Daphne and pretending she’s just another girl, assassins serving her Goblyn‑queen half‑sister smash into Daphne’s apartment to steal the Wayfairer and drag Branwen back.Panicking, Branwen unleashes the BlackFyre to protect Daphne and her mother Elaine, obliterating their attackers but shattering the Wayfairer into nine shards scattered across the human city, the Seelie Roads, and the starving Goblyn realm. With nowhere safe left, the three of them flee to the only shelter they have: the warded Forest Hill house of Bram, the battle‑scarred knight who’s raised Branwen in hiding for centuries.Holed up together, they become an uneasy found family trying to stay half a step ahead of the Goblyn Princess’s Handmaidens while tracking the shards that might be the only thing keeping Branwen from burning the world. Each piece she recovers (beginning with the drowned Aventurine shard in the wrecks beneath the Bay) makes her stronger but tightens the bond between her, the BlackFyre, and the sister who hunts her through dreams and cracks in the city’s bones.As the Princess presses in and the fire whispers that everyone is safer if she lets it loose, Branwen has to decide whether she can stay human enough—for Daphne, for Elaine, for herself—while carrying a power designed to end Courts. The book ends with the Wayfairer only partly rebuilt, the Goblyn Court fully aware their lost heir lives in San Francisco, and Branwen and her makeshift family committed to finding the remaining shattered shards before the Princess does. Read more