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There are too many debts to acknowledge in the course of writing this book, but I would like to gratefully recognize the following virtues:

Prudence (from my mother, Hazel, who keeps me grounded)

Justice (from my beta readers, blessed be they)

Courage (from my agent, Lucienne Diver, who surely needs it to deal with me)

Faith (from my husband, Cat, who replies to all my complaints about the progress of my book with a simple “I know you can do it.”)

Hope (from the Sales & Marketing Department)

Charity (from my lovely editor, Anne, who gave me the time I needed)

I am nothing without these virtues.

MY NAME IS CASSIEL, and I was once a Djinn—a being as old as the Earth herself, rooted in her power. I cared little for the small, scurrying human creatures who busied themselves with their small lives.

Things have changed. Now I am a small, scurrying human creature. In form, at any rate. Thanks to a disagreement with Ashan, the leader of the True Djinn, I can only sustain my life through the charity of the Wardens—humans who control aspects of the powers that surround us, such as wind and fire. The Warden I’m partnered with, Luis Rocha, commands the powers of the living Earth.

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