Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland 371 pages
Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She'd rather
watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she
pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future
pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all
that changed when her sister was murdered - and Zephyr used a forbidden
dark power to save herself from the same fate.
On the run from a
punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood
friend upends Zephyr's world - and not only because her old friend has
grown surprisingly, extremely hot. It seems that Zephyr might just be
the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance:
for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is
supposed to change that.
But how is she supposed to save everyone else when she can barely take care of herself?
