{"product_id":"firstborn","title":"Firstborn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Book One in the Firstborn Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hunger Games meets Fourth Wing in this crackling debut epic fantasy about a dystopian world where birth order determines fate, and the young woman who must choose between her family and her country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first children take up arms.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe second children take up books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe third children are taken.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBryn Ruelle was never supposed to rank first. Yet there it was: her face, flashing across every scoreboard with 5:1 odds of winning. The top contender for the Long Night, the final test for the eldest daughters and sons of Durst. The Firstborn must prove they can take a life—or be exiled themselves. If they survive, they'll graduate into soldiers dedicated to defending their borders against their magic-wielding neighbors in Arcania. Bryn has never made a kill before tonight. But by dawn, someone will be dead by her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn case she doesn't make it, she should say her goodbyes. To Asa, her brilliant younger brother, studying anti-magics at Midborn University. To little Wren, her odd duckling of a sister, soon to be taken away with the other Lastborn to a place from which none of the youngest children have ever returned. But Bryn has always known: key to their survival is loyalty to their class—to Dursti—before family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen Bryn finds an encryption revealing an Arcanist plot to kidnap the Lastborn, and she must discern if the threat to Wren is real—or a ruse to throw Bryn off her game before the Long Night. When her search for the truth forces her side-by-side with a traitor-born enemy, she risks everything she's trained for, and faces an impossible choice: her country, or her family? Her siblings, or herself?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Stonefruit Studio\u003cbr\u003ePublished: September 2026 \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781615957606\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M.J. Hastings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57236016070822,"sku":"9781615957606","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/1465\/6166\/files\/FIRSTBORN_BY_M._J._HASTINGS.jpg?v=1788308987","url":"https:\/\/enamouredbooks.co.nz\/products\/firstborn","provider":"Enamoured Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}