The Sunbearer Trials

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where ten semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes in this breathtaking, Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the author of the New York Times-bestselling Cemetery Boys. Only the most powerful and honorable will be chosen. Teo, the seventeen-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, isnt worried. As a Jade, its unlikely hell be chosen to compete in the Trials, and even if his best friend Niya competes, shes a born-and-bred Gold semidis with unparalleled abilities. But for the first time in over a century, Sol chooses not one, but two Jade competitors: Teo and Xio, the thirteen-year-old child of the god of bad luck. With the odds stacked against them, Teo is determined to get himself and his friends through the trials unscathed for fame, glory, and their own survival . . .