The Oasis Stone

Trapped between prophecy and vengeance, a thief must decide what is worth more. Mayve has never known comfort. Her boots are filled with sand, her lungs are choked with ash, and her purse is always a few coins short of a full meal. Such is life for her and her mother, scraping together a meager existence in the grand desert city of Devar-or rather, the twisting caves beneath it. While her mother values honest work, Mayve prefers anything but. She longs to build a better life for them both; somewhere far from the heat of the Scorch Vents, where trees still grow and rain still falls. When she takes a lucrative opportunity that could set them up for life, the night turns bloody and tragedy strikes. Losing her mother in the chaos, Mayve finds herself in possession of a strange artifact, sought after by countless powerful factions-the Oasis Stone. Hunted by savage raptors, the mighty Oaken Legion, and a masked volcomancer who bends shadows to his will, Mayve must choose: follow a destined path, to bring the Oasis Stone to the Great Seer and learn its true purpose, or use it to avenge the death of her mother. Grappling between prophecy and vengeance, her choice may have apocalyptic consequences.