City of Fury. Fury, #1

Everything her parents ever lied about was hidden under the lima beans. Anjie Karan is fifteen, mostly fearless, and completely sure of exactly two things: her parents are late coming home from Florida, and something is wrong with the ring her mother never takes off. Then the black box turns up under the lima beans in the freezer - cash, old photographs, and two letters that unravel everything Anjie thought she knew.
Her parents aren't just missing. They're hiding, and have been for fifteen years. The bedtime story about a made-up planet called Fury turns out to be the one true thing nobody ever explained. Fury is real. Anjie is its heir. And on the other side of a paper garden guarded by a boy named Kaza, a war that has been quietly destroying his world for a generation is about to come looking for her too - riding creatures painted into monsters, led by an enemy who may not even be standing where he appears to be.
With her six-toed cat, Misfit, refusing to leave her side, and an eccentric neighbor who turns out to be exactly the ally she needs, Anjie has to learn her family's oldest rule fast: some circles can't be broken by anything that isn't real. City of Fury is a story about the secrets people keep to protect the ones they love, the cost of carrying them alone, and the discovery that home was never just one planet.
School of Fury, book two, is coming soon - and so is Misfit's own account of that summer, included here as a bonus story.