Gravity’s Fire

Jason June meets TJ Klune and F.T. Lukens in this YA debut that’s two parts fluffy romcom, one part contemporary fantasy, and all epic love story. First love is magic. Sometimes literally. Sixteen-year-old Phoenix “Nix” Ashwell has spent his whole life looking for his soulmate. He’s also spent that life living a lie. After discovering his parents kidnapped him as an infant, he runs away to a town built inside an ancient crater to search for clues about his past. And, no, he’s totally not there to look for a boyfriend. That is, until he meets Max, a boy straight out of his dreams. Okay, fine, he’s definitely there for a boyfriend. Desperate to be closer to Max, Nix takes a series of bizarre tests to get into the special program he’s part of. There’s just one problem: Max is magic. And, after unknowingly cheating on the tests, everyone thinks Nix is magic too—including a group of ex-students whose attempts to reveal magic to the world put Max in danger. Now Nix has way more to worry about than figuring out if Max is flirting with him or just super nice. He’ll have to find his own magic to protect the guy he’s falling so hard for he’s seeing stars. But then he learns his birth parents are hiding even more secrets than the ones he ran away from—one being that he was born to wield the most dangerous kind of magic. He’s faced with an impossible choice: risk the life of the boy he’s spent his whole life looking for or let him go to save him. What began as a quest to find where he belongs becomes a battle between the fire of who he is and the gravity of who he loves. First love is magic. Sometimes literally. When sixteen-year-old Phoenix Nix Ashwell discovers that his parents abducted him as an infant, nothing in his life makes sense anymore. The adults he trusted are chasing him and unexplainable events keep happening around him. So, he runs away to search for clues about his past, why he has a perpetual fever, and what his real name is. What he finds is Max, a boy straight out of his dreams. Suddenly all that other stuff takes a back seat to believing he's found his soulmate. Theres just one problem: Max is magic. Now, to be with Max, Nix will have to do the impossible and become magic too. Its a good thing hes a hopeless romantic who would do anything for love. But, when becoming magic puts Max in danger, he will still have to do the impossible: choose between the fire of who he is and the gravity of who he loves. And, as he falls deeper into a world of secrets and lies, what began as a quest to find where he belongs becomes a battle to save the boy belongs with.