Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for i
ts most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava - in all other ways a normal girl - is
born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar dispositio
n and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures i
nto the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the t
wisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes
Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summe
r solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill th
e air, and Ava's quest and her family's saga build to a devastating crescendo. F
irst-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mytho
logy of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely hu
man.
