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Children of the Burnt Sun

E’yen A. Gardner

"Not everything is always black and white. But sometimes it is." When Cyril Lawrence moves with his white adoptive family from the city to Phoria, the town is welcoming to everyone but him. But beyond the edge of town, Cyril discovers an Indigenous tribe where he finds the acceptance that has eluded him in Phoria. As Cyril fights to embrace his identity in a town that enforces assimilation, he grows closer to the Zhawenok people and begins to understand that nothing about his family's move to Phoria was random. As the line between the natural world and the spirit world begins to break, Cyril must discover who he truly is before the darkness within Phoria consumes him and everyone he loves.