ASHES OF DIVINITY

She won the war. The king called it treason. Astra was a goddess for three thousand years. The Blade of Heaven. Worshiped. Feared. Never once allowed to just be someone. She ended the war that should have been her crowning moment. Then the king she'd trusted with everything decided a hero the realm loved more than him was a threat he couldn't afford to keep. Betrayed. Stripped of her power. Cast down to a world that's never heard her name. She wakes in a stranger's garden with nothing left but instinct. It's already running toward a fight that isn't hers, for people who owe her nothing. Elias buried his brother a year ago. He's spent every day since making sure he never loses anyone again. Then a woman falls out of the sky and keeps choosing him anyway and the empty life he built around his guilt stops being enough. The void hunting her isn't random. The truth is closer to home than either of them can survive ignoring. She has to find out who she is without a throne, a war, or a title. He has to find out if loving someone built for war is a risk worth taking twice. And above them both, the king who once smiled at her victory is becoming the very thing she was forged to destroy.