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Ashen Court
A Bargain of Burning Roses
Embers of the Ashen Court · Book 3
by Elowen Hart
Heat 4 / 5 · 21+Novel · 24 chapters33,145 words2h 24m read~3h 41m listen
Before dawn breaks over the Ashen Palace, Zevara Nolthis carries a black-glass vial in a hidden pocket — a private penance, never spent, never put down. When the ember clergy drags them into the Glass Court’s inner sanctum and binds them by blood-pact to Calder Ashvane, the exiled lord whose ruin they once quietly engineered, Zevara understands the shape of the trap immediately. What they do not understand is how long it will take to close.
Calder finds the vial before the first hour is out. Its burning-rose seal is unmistakable. The silence that answers his unspoken accusation is the most honest thing Zevara has offered anyone in years.
Joint custodians of a flame-sealed document the sovereign wants returned at any cost, two enemies are forced through hidden palace corridors, the smoke-fogged ember gardens, and the cold reach of the border mistlands — each step dismantling the careful architecture of their hatred, each truth offered in the dark more dangerous than the loyalists hunting them. The document is not what either of them believed. The blood-pact is not punishment. And the sovereign’s next order, delivered in elegant cipher, will require Zevara to choose — for the first time in their life — between the command and the person standing in its path.
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