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I returned to the desert, watching the birds against the moon, their songs swallowed by the endless sky. Some said they carried messages from the gods. I only knew this: we were no longer content living in cages. We had begun to trust our freedom, and it marked the last throes of our innocence.
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"You’ve seen it, too. Space, time, reality, perception—everything beyond our understanding is within her control. But she doesn’t know how to begin."
—MASTER SAVAGE
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The Secret Will Kill You
Live As If Everything Is Recorded.
Resist Like Everything Is Sacred.
Live As If Everything Is Recorded.
Resist Like Everything Is Sacred.
In Avalon, purity is everything. Citizens submit to brutal public audits called Reclamation. Refuse, and they face Fire Crown, a ceremony that burns the impure on live TV.
It is a society built on shame, surveillance, and the quiet desperation of those who know they can never be pure enough.
Sage doesn’t care about purity. He only cares about Megan, the love of his life who vanished a year ago during her Rite of Sacrifice. His search leads him to the lawless Redemption City (Red C), where he finds Megan transformed into something otherworldly—powerful, dangerous, and unaware of the force within her.
As her awakening threatens to unravel everything he believes about love, identity, and truth, Sage discovers his own hidden gifts emerging. In a world where even hope is heretical, he must choose between the safety of conformity and the terrifying freedom of rebellion.
For readers of Neal Shusterman’s Scythe and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Ceremony of Fire fuses action with philosophy — a dystopian novel with a metaphysical edge.
About the Author
C. D. Lawrence is a screenwriter, occasional poet, and former children’s and YA author whose books, published through a Big Five house, have sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
Ceremony of Fire is his first novel for adults.