Scepter of Ember and Bone

In a murdered kingdom of ash and dust, Princess Leah is a prisoner, both to her enemies and to the chaotic sun-fire raging within her. Her captor is Nicholas, an enemy prince whose shadow magic is the only thing that can contain her destructive power. Chained together in a desolate wasteland, they are the last remnants of a bitter war, bound by a connection that feels more like a curse than a key.


Their desperate flight for survival evolves into a quest for an impossible truth: their opposing magics are not what they seem, but two halves of a whole, a forgotten balance that could heal a dying world. Hunted by a relentless empire and haunted by ghosts of the past, their journey leads them to an ancient oracle and then to a hidden sanctuary of survivors-a last hope for Leah's people, led by a warrior she thought was long dead.


But in the heart of this supposed refuge, Leah discovers that loyalty is a blade and the deepest betrayals are wrapped in the promise of salvation. When a heartbreaking sacrifice shatters everything she thought she knew, she must claim a terrifying new power that is neither sun nor shadow, but both. Now fugitives from all sides, hunted by those they sought to save, they are the world's only hope-and its most hated heretics. Can two enemies become the balance for a world that only understands war?