Nanda is no hero. Growing up in the heart of L.A., the powerless teen is forced to ignore the abused animals who call to her-cries for help only she can sense. Parkour is her refuge, but no amount of jumping and vaulting over obstacles can change her helpless future. Until she wakes up on a dark hillside with the past three days wiped from her memory.

Something is different. The mysterious tiger mark scorched on her shoulder? Only the beginning. Her average parkour skills have evolved. This is the new Nanda, and she can leap over rooftops like an urban ninja.

Her search for answers and lost memories unveils clues that lead to a wildlife trafficking empire. The Trade works in the shadows, smuggling the world's most endangered animals and condemning them to life in a cage -or worse. This could be Nanda's chance to finally answer their cries. But messing with the Trade's cryptic leader is a deadly game, even for a super-powered teen.

And Nanda has just made herself a target.

• Feral Phantom is a YA superhero novel with an element of urban fantasy, reading along the veins of James Patterson's Maximum Ride* series. If you love YA books about superpowers, this fast-paced novel by author and parkour athlete Brooke De Lira is for you.