A Light in the Sky

2022 Gold Medal Winner in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for Teen Fiction

2022 Gold Medal Winner in the Readers' Choice Book Awards for Teen Fiction

2022 Gold Medal Winner in the Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Young Adult -Mythology/Fairy Tale

2022 Gold Medal Winner in the Best Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction

2022 Gold Medal Winner in the Best Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction

2022 Award Winner in the Young Adult category of the American Fiction Awards

2022 Runner-up in the Maxy Awards (Middle Grade - YA Winner)

2022 Finalist in the SPR Awards

2022 Award-Winning Finalist in the Fantasy: Epic/High Fantasy category of the American Fiction Awards

2021 Finalist in the IAN Book of the Year Awards (Fantasy)

2022 Readers' Favorite Five Stars

Red Queen meets The Scorpio Races in a high-flying new fantasy series filled with passion, betrayal, and adventure from debut author Shina Reynolds.

Seventeen-year-old Aluma Banks has always dreamed of soaring freely through the skies astride a powerful winged steed of her own. But flying is a privilege granted only to the Riders of the king's Empyrean Cavalry, the aerial warriors who defend the borders of their land from the fallen kingdom of Laithlann.

Each year, Rider hopefuls across Eirelannia compete in the Autumn Tournament for the honor of joining the Cavalry. Aluma, trained to ride and fight by her retired Empyrean Rider father, knows she has what it takes to prove herself worthy-if only her father hadn't forbidden her from joining their ranks, in the hope of protecting his only daughter from the perils of war. To make matters worse, Thayer, Aluma's best friend who could be becoming something more, is competing-and if he wins, he'll leave her behind.

When Aluma's father is tragically injured just before the Tournament, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into this year's competition. But as Aluma begins to pursue her dreams, she learns devastating secrets about the king and his never-ending war with Laithlann. In her quest for the truth, Aluma discovers a power deep within herself that may be the only way to save Eirelannia and the people she loves from the darkness that threatens to consume them all.