The First Rays at Dawn by Ellen Macias Paperback Book 9781800168695

The tale of women resisting oppression is as ageless as they come and heroines across time and space come to learn that their anger can be sharpened into a finely tuned weapon and that when they rise up alongside one another their force is unstoppable Calas journey begins when she is turned over to the authorities by her own father for the crime of learning to write as a woman Havitas anger just as sharp as Calas has a different origin story In the wake of losing their firstborn daughter to a cruel kingdom Havitas parents train her their second daughter to become a weapon that cannot be violated Ultimately the two stories intertwine and while each struggles against her own demons the corruption around them draws them toward a common cause a mission to serve the good people of their kingdom