EMBERS OF THE FORSAKEN
READING AGE 18+
The ash doesn't forget. It waits.
James has spent eighteen years pretending to be nothing. In the city of Ravensbrook, where magic runs through bloodlines like currency, the powerless are less than servants—they're ghosts. And James has mastered the art of being invisible.
But ghosts don't bleed silver.
When a routine delivery goes wrong and he's slashed across the chest by a mercenary's blade, the wound doesn't weep red. It glows. Molten silver spills from his skin, melting through cobblestones and setting every magical ward in the district ablaze. Within hours, three factions are hunting him: the Inquisition, who burn magic-users at the stake; the Syndicate, who want to dissect him for his power; and the Dying King's loyalists, who believe his blood can resurrect a tyrant.
The truth is worse than all of them.
James carries the Ember—the last spark of a dead god, sealed into his bloodline a thousand years ago. It's not a gift. It's a prison. Every time he uses its power, the Ember burns away another piece of his memories, his emotions, his self. Use it too much, and there will be nothing left but a walking furnace wearing his face.
He has two choices: run until the factions tear the world apart looking for him, or learn to control a power that wants to consume him.
Then he meets Taylor.
She's a deserter from the Inquisition's holy army, carrying secrets that could topple empires and a scarred heart that trusts no one. She doesn't want to save James. She wants to use him as bait to draw out the man who murdered her squad. But when the Syndicate captures Tommy—James's foster brother, the only family he has left—the two of them are forced into an uneasy alliance.
Their journey will take them from the clockwork streets of Ravensbrook to the Sunken Citadel, where the Dying King's heart still beats in a crystal coffin. They'll cross paths with Raymond, a smuggler prince who trades in forbidden memories, and Kate, a wild mage who speaks to the ghosts in ancient forests.
The prophecy says the one who controls the Ember will reshape the world.
But prophecies never mention the cost.
And James is running out of time.
Because the dead god isn't as dead as everyone believes. And it's hungry.
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Will the boy become a monster—which will he choose to save the world or burn it down?
Unfold
Hope and Dawn stood on the hill overlooking Ember's Rest, watching the sun set over the valley for the final time.
It was the end of an era. The healing was complete. The grey had faded. The silence had broken. The hunger had transformed. The doubt had released. The dream had understood. The circle was complete.
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