The Nyenir Chronicles: Aradhan Blood: 2

She grew up salting fish in a mud-walled town, the second daughter of a trader, in the shadow of a golden city that didn't know her name.Then a dying midwife pressed a small bone button into her hand - carved with a tower, and a crown - and told her the truth she'd carried in silence for thirty years: her blood isn't from here at all.Aeryna doesn't go looking for a throne. She goes three hundred miles across a mountain range no one from her town has ever crossed, just to keep a true thing from disappearing the way everything else in Aradhan disappears - into silt, into silence, into nothing.What she finds at the end of that road is a kingdom that already has a king. One who believes, with everything in him, that he's the last of his line.He has no idea what just walked into the city.The story the last chronicle didn't tell - the other ember no one knew was still burning.