

When a betrayal sends her into a tailspin, Rue must decide who to trust and how to be the leader that her people deserve…because if she doesn’t, it isn’t just Yiyo that will be destroyed-it will be Rue herself. Yet even on Yiyo Peak, Rue is a misfit-with half a foot back in Houston and half a heart that is human as well as god, she’s not sure she’s the right person to lead the fight to reclaim a glorious past. When she finds them again, Rue makes a vow: she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has stolen from her father’s people. Wings of Ebony is a lead title with Simon & Schuster, out February 23, 2021. Her debut novel, Wings of Ebony, is book one in a YA fantasy duology about a Black girl from a poor neighborhood who learns she’s magical. Girls from the East Row break themselves out.īut reuniting with her friends is only half the battle. ELLE is a prolific Black author and advocate for marginalized voices in both publishing and her community. Girls from the East Row pick themselves back up when they fall. And girls from the East Row don’t give up.


11, 2022 The future of a nation rests on one girl’s shoulders. The Young Adult (YA) fantasy novelist recently released Book 2 in her New York Times bestselling Wings of Ebony YA fantasy duology, Ashes of Gold. Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies. ASHES OF GOLD From the Wings of Ebony series, Vol. Texan Jess Elle is a prolific Black author and advocate for marginalized voices in both publishing and her community. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted and deeply perceptive,” Rue makes her final stand to reclaim her people’s stolen magic.
