• Paperback
• Condition: As New
• 450 pages
• Fiction: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
• Book 1/4 in the An Ember in the Ashes series

'Vow your blood and body to the empire. Keep your heart for yourself.'

An orphan fighting for her family. A soldier searching for his freedom. A story burning to be told.

Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested in the dead of night for treason and her loved ones slain, Laia must go undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from those who claim that they can save her brother from execution.

The academy's finest soldier, Elias, is secretly its most unwilling. But before he can act on the desertion he plans in his heart, he's ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.

When Laia and Elias' paths collide, they will find their destinies are inescapably intertwined and their choices will rock the future of the very empire they fear.