Fledgling

<b>The first book in a gripping duology from <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author S.K. Ali introduces a fractured world on the brink of either enlightenment or war.<br><br>“A sweeping epic of love and revolution, set in a visceral future vision of Earth and starring a cast you can’t help but fall for.” —Marie Lu, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Stars and Smoke</i></b><br><br><i>Would you trade love for peace?</i><br><br>Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father’s arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince of the corrupt, volatile lands of Lower Earth. <br><br>Though Lein is a stranger, Raisa knows the wedding will unite their vastly different worlds in a pact of peace: an infusion of Upper Earth technology will usher in the final age of enlightenment, ending war between humans forever. <br><br><i>Or is justice more urgent?</i><br><br>Newly released from imprisonment, Nada of Lower Earth has found her own callin disrupting the royal wedding. <br><br>Convinced her cousin Lein’s alliance with Upper Earth will launch an invasive, terrifying form of tyranny, Nada sets out undercover to light the spark of revolution. <br><br>When Raisa goes missing a week before the wedding, all eyes turn to the rebels, including Nayf, Nada’s twin brother, a fugitive on the run. <br><br>In Nayf and Raisa meeting, the long-simmering animosity between their worlds slowly burns away into something unexpected.<br><br>But the Crown Prince wants his bride — and future — back. And he will go to the ends of the earths to reclaim them.