After surviving Ashfell’s sacred fire, Elaris Varyn is no longer an offering. She is the Ash Bride, the witness no faction can bury.
The Ash King is no longer fully imprisoned. Caelan Arcthyr has returned enough for the realm to fear him, but not enough to save it.
As bells ring without command and old gates wake beneath the capital, crown, temple, and noble houses race to decide what Elaris is: vessel, danger, bride, witness, or weapon. But the dead women of Ashfell have names, the old fire has memory, and the kingdom’s mercy may be only another kind of chain.
To survive what comes next, Elaris and Caelan must learn whether love can remain choice when the world is trying to turn it into power.
Dark, gothic, and romantic, King of Cinders is Book Two in the Burn into Oblivion trilogy.
