Waiting on Wednesday #52

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine.  It's where we share the upcoming releases we're most eagerly anticipating and can't wait to get our hands on!  

This week . . .

Title:  Storm Siren
Series:  Storm Siren #1
Author:  Mary Weber (Website | Twitter)
Age Group:  Young Adult
Publication Date:  August 19th, 2014 by Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins

"I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don't want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you. "
In a world at war, a slave girl's lethal curse could become one kingdom s weapon of salvation. If the curse and the girl can be controlled.
As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn't merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth meaning, she shouldn't even exist.
Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war, or be killed.
Choosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she's being prepared to fight . . . not to mention the handsome trainer whose dark secrets lie behind a mysterious ability to calm every lightning strike she summons.
But what if she doesn't want to be the weapon they've all been waiting for?
Set in a beautifully eclectic world of suspicion, super abilities, and monsters, "Storm Siren" is a story of power. And whoever controls that power will win.

Find Story Siren online

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Why I'm waiting on Story Siren:  I love the concept of this book!  It sounds extremely interesting and I've heard tons of positive things about it.  Also, I actually really like the cover.

What are you waiting on this Wednesday?  Leave your links in the comments below!