Before the Sunset

Alya has always felt different. Mocked for how she looks and branded a freak for her strange abilities, she's learned to live as an outcast. When a surge of unexplainable power rips through her classroom and a mysterious boy named Jayden appears in her life, everything changes.

He's protective, kind, and infuriatingly charming, but there's something about him that doesn't quite add up... something almost as strange as she is.

Driven by Jayden's push and the pull of her own unanswered questions, Alya sets out to find the mother she thought had abandoned her. What she finds instead is a whole hidden world she never knew existed, and a family who's been waiting for her all along.

But the same power that led her home has also woken something ancient and starving out of hiding, something that's waited a thousand years for a girl exactly like her. To protect the family she just found, Alya sets out on a journey with a blunt, ice-gliding elf and her cousins who won't let her face any of it alone, to master a power she doesn't fully understand, and to finally uncover the truth about what Jayden really is.

Before the Sunset is Book One of the Children of the Tide series: an emotional tale of love, loss, and the power of discovering who you are, and embracing it against all odds.