Thora Lumin was a nobody. After losing her parents and baby brother in a house fire, she spent her childhood bouncing between foster families and group homes, never once feeling like she belonged. Words like 'home,' 'love,' and 'family' lost their meaning and were soon replaced with 'orphan,' 'damaged,' and 'freak.' It isn't until she's offered a scholarship to a local university and finds herself a the heart of a centuries old conspiracy that a new word lays claim to her. 'Witch.' After being attacked by someone she thought she could trust and rescued by a mysterious stranger with a dark connection to her past, she's launched into a magical world parallel to her own. A world of powerful energy beings called Conduits. Since the day she was born she's had a price on her head, set by a ruling tyrant named Egon. His men are everywhere. Trained killers adorned in black feathers hunt her, all the while preparing for a war against humanity itself. A war that only Thora-the prophesied Phoenix and the face of a waiting rebellion-can prevent. Feathers & Flame is the first book in the Urban Fantasy series A Conspiracy of Witches.