Ashes & Starlight
In a dying empire held together by the stolen magic of Ashborn — people whose grief is powerful enough to burn the world — seventeen-year-old Sable Voss has spent her life hiding what she is.
When her village is massacred by the Emperor's Harvesters — soldiers who drain Ashborn alive to fuel the capital's eternal light — Sable's grief ignites something inside her she cannot control. She burns everything within a mile. And she feels nothing.
Taken to the capital as a weapon, she meets Caelum, the Emperor's disgraced general who is secretly working to collapse the very empire he serves. He is the first person who looks at her power and does not flinch.
But Sable doesn't want to be saved. She wants answers — why did her grief feel like relief? What did she lose the night her village burned? And is the hollow place inside her an absence of feeling — or a power the world has never seen?
A story about grief as power. Love as choice. And the terrifying grace of a woman who has nothing left to lose.
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