Wren and the Tarnished Tiger

Wren and the Tarnished Tiger is novelist E. M. Leander's debut into young-adult fantasy, offering a coming-of-age tale in an immersive, dual point-of-view narrative set in a world of elemental magic and animal shifters. A girl whose magic doesn't fit the mold.A tarnished golden boy.The journey that will unite them. Orphaned Wren is contented with her life as a lighthouse keeper - but when war encompasses her country, she will be thrust into a world she never imagined. Bound in an unlikely partnership, she will find the gods have bigger plans for her than she could ever have imagined.Handsome and arrogant Aris is descended from a line of Shields, animal shifters whose sole purpose is to guard their paired Mages. As the story unfolds, the influence of mercurial gods will gift Wren and Aris an incomparable journey through magic, betrayal, and love.