Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. Elias is the academy's finest soldier- and secretly, its most unwilling. When Laia and Elias's paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined.