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Ashen Court
Ashes for the Heir
Embers of the Ashen Court · Book 1
by Elowen Hart
Heat 3 / 5Novel · 21 chapters71,978 words5h 13m read~8h 0m listenFree with a free account
The Glass Court does not forgive secrets — it collects them. Zephyrine Ashveil has spent years as the court’s Cipher-Keeper, translating other people’s treasons into silence and calling it loyalty. When the newly returned heir Idris Solmere walks into the cipher vault and lifts a fragment of ash-script that should not exist — a remnant of a letter Zephyrine destroyed, and buried, and tried to forget — the careful architecture of that silence begins to crack.
Neither of them speaks the threat aloud. They don’t have to. Idris holds the correspondence that can ruin Zephyrine. Zephyrine holds the cipher key Idris desperately needs. In the ember gardens and candlelit alcoves of the Ashen Palace, a wary, volatile partnership takes shape — intelligence exchanged in low voices, secrets decoded by firelight, desire arriving sideways through formality the way heat bleeds through cold stone.
But the blood-magic conspiracy threading through the ember clergy and the Ashborn nobility is moving faster than either of them anticipated. And somewhere beneath the court’s glittering, suffocating machinery, an old act of cowardice is waiting to surface — one that could cost Zephyrine everything, or finally set them free.
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