The bond was never meant to be made between them. She is ash. He is ember. And the magic that tied their souls together is slowly burning them both alive.

Elara did not choose to be bound to the Ember King. She did not choose to feel his rage like fire under her skin, or his grief like smoke in her lungs. She did not choose any of this?but the bond does not care what she chose.

Kael has ruled through fire and iron for a decade, and he has never once lost control. Until her. Until the bond pulled taut between them and reminded him that even kings can burn.

To break the bond, they must work together. To work together, they must trust each other. And trust, between a king who has only known betrayal and a woman who has only known survival, is the most dangerous thing of all.

But the bond is changing them. Slowly. Surely. And somewhere between the ash and the ember, something neither of them planned is beginning to take hold.

A dark romantasy of reluctant bonds, enemies who cannot escape each other, and the fire that burns between hatred and love.