They embark on a journey, running and hiding from both the government and fae, both of which threaten their lives and those they love. The electric storm connects her to a ruthless fae, a Wanderer named Ryker, whose dealings expose them to even more trouble and danger. When devastation hits Seattle, Zoey's whole world is turned upside down.

She was raised to think of fae as beasts that feed on humans and want to destroy them. Liked City in Embers See 27 Book Recommendations like. The work never registers on her sympathy radar. Trying to slow me, the entity I ran after hurled another container to the ground, w. Because of this, the DMG hires her to work as a Collector: catching, researching, testing, and using the fae to save human lives. The man she loves.īut there is something unique about Zoey. When she is placed in her 'last-chance' home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.Īfter high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her co-worker. Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. City In Embers is the first book in the Collector Series, which follows the events from Stacie Marie Browns Darkness series, but from another perspective.

City in Embers by Stacey Marie Brown