Ember Kissed

EMBER KISSED
Memories of Ember - Book One

Abby hauls stone for copper coins and tells no one about the fire in her hands.

In Tremal, survival means selling. The Memory Guild will buy your grief, your joy, your mother's face - anything, for the right price. Everyone sells eventually. Everyone except Abby, who has kept every memory of her parents even as the hunger closes in.

Then her roof burns through in the night, and the lord of the city notices.

Vance Danliel has rough hands for a reason. He's chosen blisters over magic his whole life, because magic costs pieces of yourself you never get back. But he recognizes what Abby is hiding - and what she could become if she doesn't learn control.

As Abby trains in secret, the Memory Guild's shadow lengthens. The corruption spreading at the city's edge has a source. And the kingdom's greatest hero - hollow-eyed Julia Wilds, who burned through everything she had to save them all - is watching.

In a world that profits from emptiness, choosing to feel is the most dangerous magic of all.

For fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Jasad Heir, and readers who want their romantasy to say something about the cost of numbing yourself to survive.