A Court of Embers & Spite

Fire burns deepest in the dark.

In the radiant halls of the Solarion Dominion, Lady Rayna Vance is viewed as an obscure, ink-stained archivist. Nobody notices the silent clerk categorizing ancient tithes-and nobody suspects the twin daggers strapped beneath her skirts, or the forbidden Sun-Eater curse slumbering within her veins.

Her orders are lethal and absolute: cross the fractured frontier into the mist-veiled Umbral Wastes and slip sunstone ash into the goblet of Lord Kaelen Drake-the feared Void Sovereign, known across continents as the Reaper of Dawn.

Kaelen is everything Rayna was taught to despise: merciless, ice-veined, and commanding an abyssal power that consumes living light. But when an ancient, world-eating Blight breaches the fortress walls, Rayna's blade finds Kaelen's throat just as their opposing magics violently collide.

Their touch doesn't kill.

It awakens a catastrophic convergence prophesied to shatter the world.

Framed by an imperial coup and hunted across frozen peaks by golden paladins and nightmarish abominations, the assassin and the warlord are forced into an uneasy, incendiary alliance. To stop the impending ruin of the Hollow Sun, Rayna must decide whether to extinguish the spark that binds them-or surrender to a burning passion powerful enough to forge an empire.

Written by Gyan Prakash Upadhyay, A Court of Embers & Spite is the pulse-pounding opening to The Crown of Ash & Eclipse, an epic romantasy saga filled with razor-sharp banter, deadly political intrigue, dark elemental magic, and scorching enemies-to-lovers tension.

THE CROWN OF ASH & ECLIPSE
Book 1: A Court of Embers & Spite
Book 2: A Reign of Frost & Ruin
Book 3: A Throne of Veiled Bones
Book 4: A War of Shattered Dawn
Book 5: A Crown of Ash & Eclipse