Prince of Ash and Root: Crown Embers

A crown is easy to inherit. It is much harder to earn.Two years have passed since the flood that broke a dam and ended a war. The Kingdom of Guerrero stands changed, Faates, Mountain Clans, and the Land of the Lakes now bound together in a fragile, hard-won alliance. But peace has never been the end of the story. From deep in the eastern desert, a warlord named Rangoon is rising, uniting the scattered tribes under a single, brutal banner, and setting his sights on the very peace Kael nearly died to build.Torn between duty and the people he loves, seventeen-year-old Kael defies his father's orders and slips away back west toward the Land of the Lakes and eventually east towards the desert. Far from him, his father wages a different kind of war at home, proving that a crown built on fire can still be worn with something like honor. And across the mountains and the lakes, old friends become something more, even as old debts start coming due.Some fires never fully go out. They only wait for someone desperate enough to relight them.