Between college applications, boys, and homework, she doesn't have a lot of spare time to figure out why intense emotions make her eyes glow (freaking glow), or why she has the weirdest feeling that someone or something vital is missing from her life. And, it's not like the answers, when she starts to get them, are reassuring.

Sure, she finds Aerigo, the one other person whose eyes are like hers, and yeah, he unlocks some crazy hidden powers in her. All that hardly makes up for the fact that she and Aerigo are a species literally being hunted to extinction by someone a lot more powerful and a whole lot more insane. This is hardly the post-graduation summer road trip adventure Roxie had in mind.

Faced with strange prophecies, mad gods, and debates about the tensile strength of the fabric of reality, Roxie must learn to accept the unbelievable and believe she is strong enough to fight back. The alternative is everything she is and everyone she loves will cease to exist...or worse.

Strength is the first in the four-part Mortal Guardians fantasy series by Angela Guajardo sure to please fans of Holly Black, Tracy Deonn, and Sarah J. Maas.