Jessica Shirvington

Jessica Shirvington writes teen fantasy that places moral choice inside fast-moving supernatural conflict. Empower concludes the five-volume Embrace series, also known in Australia as The Violet Eden Chapters. Two years after leaving her city, friends, academy, and bond with Lincoln, Violet Eden has built a life in London. Spence's disappearance forces her to return to the angelic struggle she tried to escape and decide how to use abilities that others hope to control. The novel closes a sequence begun with Embrace and continued through Entice, Emblaze, and Endless, so its emotional weight comes from accumulated loyalties rather than a new quest alone. Lothian Children's Books first published Empower in Australia and New Zealand in 2013; Sourcebooks Fire brought it to American readers in 2014. Shirvington keeps Violet's agency central as romance, friendship, and duty pull in different directions, making the finale a reckoning with identity as much as a battle between Angels and Exiles.