Phoenix

By Brian E Niskala

Every fire needs three things to burn: fuel, heat, and oxygen. Phoenix Cole is the only person alive who's all three.

Born in the fire that killed her parents - impossibly, permanently unharmed - Phoenix grew up carrying a secret that could level a house before she learned how to hold it in. Her aunt Cassidy, barely eighteen when she chose to raise her, taught her control. Her best friend taught her trust. And when a house fire nearly took that friend too, Phoenix learned what she was actually for.

The world found out on a Friday night in October, when a downed military jet turned a football stadium into an inferno and one sixteen-year-old girl walked through the flames like they belonged to her.

Now the cameras know her name. The government wants to study her - carefully, respectfully, for now. And when a chemical plant explosion spins into two fires at once, threatening a town that can't be saved by fighting either one alone, Phoenix will have to attempt something no one has ever survived: burning brighter than she's ever burned, and hoping there's anything left of herself when the fire finally goes out.

Phoenix is a story about the exact shape of a sacrifice - what it costs to save everyone else, and what it takes to be genuinely okay with never being extraordinary again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFGRPRQT
• ISBN13: 9798193005162
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"