A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.

Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to this soaring fantasy series. In a world, where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high. In the Clandoms, every person is born with wings, along with the ability to fly. But, there has always been one deadly restriction to this gift, a rule that must never be broken. Flying in cloudy skies summons gargols, vicious stone...

They are twelve men who shouldn't be alive. They have survived the sudden blinding sandstorm that crippled their air freighter. Survived a desperate crash landing in the Sahara. Survived to face the slow, dry, agonizing death of the desert. Twelve men with one hope: to build a new plane from the wreckage of their Skytruck and make a flight out of hell.

Every year the flamingos along the Mediterranean shores set off in search of a suitable breeding place. This beautiful and delicate bird has fascinated civilizations for centuries and thus the myth of the phoenix was born. "The bird of the sun", as it was referred to in ancient Egypt, has existed for ten million years and is still here. Today, our phoenixes are found in the south of Spain, in the Atlantic marches of Doñana. They spend the winter...

When a phoenix has your heart, hope burns bright. Caught in the middle of a coup attempt, a vicious war on phoenixes, and a curse brought down on them by an ancient octopus religion, Sersha and Kazmerev must dig deep to find ways to save their friends and their world. But when they are pushed to the very limits both physically and in their friendship, will they have what it takes to keep on fighting for hope, or will they fall into despair? For lovers...