Touching Smoke

The narrator has always assumed she was human, a belief she learns is wrong. Her nights are filled with death, blood on her hands, and visions of a catastrophe she may someday cause, along with the death she expects for herself. Her mother taught her to run quickly and well, but she never understood why until the night she sets off an earthquake and meets Isaiah.

Isaiah becomes her closest companion, the one person who can hide her from the man who created the creature she has become, and she needs his blood to stay concealed. The stakes are high: the world depends on her refusing to fall in love. Yet his touch is what keeps her alive, so she must ask whether she can love him knowing the cost, and whether anyone can be trusted when she is as lost as she feels.