
When a betrayal sends her into a tailspin, Rue must decide who to trust and how to be the leader that her people deserve, because if she doesn’t, it isn’t just Yiyo that will be destroyed-it will be Rue herself. Yet even on Yiyo Peak, Rue is a misfit with half a foot back in Houston and a heart that is half human, half god, she’s not sure she’s the right person to lead the fight to reclaim a glorious past. Rue vows that when she reunites with them, she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has stolen from her father’s people. Girls from East Row break themselves out.īut getting free and finding her friends is only half the battle. Girls from East Row pick themselves back up when they fall. Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies.


An advocate for marginalized voices in both publishing and her community, J. Elle was born in Houston, Texas, and is a first-generation college student with a bachelors in journalism and MA in educational administration and human development. In the “thrilling…masterful” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted, and deeply perceptive,” Rue makes her final stand to reclaim her people’s stolen magic. Elle is the author of Ashes Of Gold (Wings Of Ebony 2). And without magic, the sleepy town of Ashville is conquered with ease by a tyrannical king whose obsession with finding gold soon becomes a devastating campaign to enslave mankind. Elles new novel, Ashes of Gold, came out Tuesday, Jan.
