Born from fire, Solvei must learn to harness her power in order to survive in a world determined to extinguish her, in this fantasy adventure.

Ten-year-old Solvei and her tribe of fire elementals, the aed, are on the run from those who hunt their kind, when an encounter with a Titan--a monster larger than mountains--leaves everyone but Solvei dead. Now alone, she makes her way into unknown lands where the skies pour down a fire elemental's greatest weakness: water.

Between a dark fog that swallows cities; tall, bearlike people at war against technologically superior humanoids; and worst of all, the ocean, the world beyond the fire elementals' dry wastelands is anything but welcoming. Despite this, Solvei pushes on, searching for a place she can call home.

But just when it seems things are starting to go her way, she discovers those hunting her kind have not stopped. They want to control her power as an elemental and direct it upon their enemies. Solvei will have to burn even hotter to retain her freedom, becoming an inferno . . . and an inferno cannot be stopped.