Congrats to Margaret Mantor!

A huge congrats to our client Margaret Mantor on the release of her young-adult science fantasy romance novel!

Air and Ashes is now available on Amazon and B&N.


Air and Ashes by Margaret Mantor

What if you found out everything in your life was a lie?

After seventeen-year-old Emma Cross learns her mom didn’t die of cancer but was murdered, her life is upended. Forced from her home, Emma is thrown into a world hidden within our own, where Elementums—genetically engineered super soldiers who control the elements—are caught in a vicious war against the unstoppable Clinic.

Emma is convinced she doesn’t belong there—until she herself is targeted as a rare Halfbreed. If she wants to survive and uncover the dark secrets of her mom’s past, she must train to defend herself against the Clinic while resisting the distracting allure of the icy Kaden Hale—a powerful, driven Elementum with secrets of his own.

When Emma discovers a highly classified project that somehow involved her mom and could change the entire course of the war, there’s no turning back. Only three options remain: life in the Elementum world, death, or worst of all—capture.

Air and Ashes is a gripping tale of warring elements, heart-stopping romance, and devastating betrayals, perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout’s The Darkest Star and Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone.


Margaret Mantor, author of AIR AND ASHES

Margaret Mantor is an author, architect, and avid science fantasy romance reader. She lives in Colorado with her husband and corgi. When she isn’t writing, she is sketching, pampering her little silly-corgi-bean, and cheering on her talented ceramic artist husband.

After years of adventuring in worlds in her head, she took the leap and put keystrokes to paper space. Air and Ashes is her debut novel, and a dream come true. Explore the Elementum world at MargaretMantor.com.

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