Encroaching Fires

Sixteen-year-old Jayda Willow doesn't live on Earth. She's an orphan, living with a foster family on a distant planet populated and ruled by giants that humans escaped to after Earth was destroyed.

In a desperate attempt to join her mother in the detention center, Jayda burns down her foster family's house, and is brought before the overseeing giant of their township, Marcelo Aricci, who's only a little bit older than Jayda herself. Marcelo decides to take Jayda as his own instead of sending her to the detention center-a fact that she initially resents, until she uncovers the truth behind his motives.

Marcelo is part of a progressive movement that advocates for a more integrated community between humans and giants. Soon Jayda is drawn into his world and assisting him on secret missions to the capital, as well as searching for the mythical realm of El Arayra by-the-sea, a place where giants and humans are rumored to live together without fear of retaliation.

Through it all, her feelings for Marcelo grow into something Jayda never dreamed was possible, and she's forced to admit that everything she once believed about giants was wrong.