The Throne of Ember and Bone

The stars were gone.Kael noticed that first.Not the fire.Not the soldiers.Not the fae king riding through the burning square as if flame itself had made a road for him.The stars.They had always been there above Thornhaven - old, fixed, unquestioned. Then, on the night the eastern court came, the sky went empty.Her village burned.Her father was taken.Iron cuffs closed around her wrists, cutting her off from the roots, the forest, and the Bone magic she had spent her life hiding.And then her body betrayed her.Because when Soren Nightvane looked at her - the fae king whose soldiers had destroyed everything she loved - something ancient woke beneath her ribs.Not hatred.Recognition.Dragged into Nightvane Court, Kael finds a palace built like a prison and dressed like a throne. Rooms watch. Servants whisper. Records lie. The court calls her dangerous, but danger is only the word powerful people use when they are afraid of what a body remembers.Somewhere inside the mountain of black glass and fire, her father is still alive.Somewhere beneath the court, workers are being turned into structure.And somewhere under Thornhaven, something old enough to frighten kings has begun to listen.Kael was taken alive for a reason.She intends to become the reason they regret it.The Throne of Ember and Bone is Book One of The Ember Cycle, a dark romantasy of captive courts, dangerous magic, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension, buried names, and a heroine who refuses to become the bridge others want to build over her body.