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The Ember Bride
Embers of the Ashen Court · Book 2
by Elowen Hart
Heat 3 / 5Novel · 20 chapters70,907 words5h 8m read~7h 53m listen
In the Glass Court of the Ashen Palace, every vow costs something — blood, breath, or silence. Zara Ashveil has paid in silence for years, transcribing contracts she dare not question, her pen the most loyal instrument of an institution she has long since stopped believing in. She is very good at it. She has had to be.
When the High Arbiter commands her to bind Lord Cairen Dusk — the court’s most dangerous critic, the man who has named her institution corrupt in open session with the quiet precision of a surgeon — Zara cannot refuse without losing the only protection she has left. She draws her blood across the ember-ink line and opens the contract. A second line of text appears beneath the official clause, written in a dead woman’s hand.
The contract is not a silencing. It is a slow death sentence. And Zara’s blood has already touched it.
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