A deadly disease is on the loose and killing children... and its up to Rowan and her friends/love interests to figure it out. The story revolves around a world where there are humans and shapeshifting warriors. Rowan lives in the city of Heliana, a place above the sea where winged-lion shapefshifters protect their kind from humans. Rowan has trained for years to become a warrior but on the day before her training is complete her best friend and the boy she is crushing on are both sent off to fight and she wants to join. Her childhood best friend confesses to her before he leaves and now she is stuck in a love triangle trying to sort out her feelings between the boy who has always been her anchor and friend from the boy who makes her feel alive. Along the way politics, secrets, and war are all unleashed. Rowan must find a way to stop the disease and protect her people, while also deciding who she belongs with. Overall a interesting story, I am usually not one for love triangles and so for me that just didn’t work so well in this story but otherwise it was an okay read.

*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan-Tor/Forge for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*