THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO AN EMBER IN THE ASHES
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
-Spectacular.---Entertainment Weekly
-Fresh and exciting...Tahir has shown a remarkable talent for penning complex villains.---A.V. Club
-Even higher stakes than its predecessor... thrilling.- --Publishers Weekly, starred review
- An] action-packed, breathlessly paced story.- --Booklist, starred review

Set in a...

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, "An Ember in the Ashes "is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It's a story that's literally burning to be told.
LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
ELIAS is the academy's finest soldier-- and secretly, its...