Chapter 1

17-year-old Aylinn has a gift: the ability to harness heat and light, mainly in the shape of fire. But she hates it, because her mother's early demise was the result. For years, she had wandered, never knowing her place, gradually forgetting her purpose. When she finds herself in the people-clogged, noisy streets of New York City with the brother she left behind, Aylinn reluctantly starts over. Her first step? Roosevelt High School. Her soul-healing encounter with the Turtles is only a matter of meeting the red-head daddy's girl and her hockey-obsessed sidekick. Maybe then, she might be able to revive the hero in her she never knew she had.