The Burning Sky

Iolanthe Seabourne is a sixteen-year-old girl with no formal training who nonetheless commands the most powerful elemental magic seen in a generation. Prince Titus, guided since childhood by his dead mother's prophetic visions, has spent his life preparing to protect the wielder of that power and use her to avenge his family against the tyrannical Bane.

Titus makes the mistake of falling for the girl he was raised to sacrifice for a cause. Fleeing across a hidden magical Britain disguised within the ordinary world, the two must learn to trust each other while Titus trains Iolanthe for a confrontation neither may survive. The Burning Sky, the first book in Sherry Thomas's Elemental Trilogy, blends portal fantasy, elemental magic, and a slow-burn romance in a richly built alternate Victorian England.