King of Ashes & Embers (Ashes & Crowns)

A hostage princess. A feared Dragon King. An ancient oath that could save two kingdoms—or set them both ablaze.

When the walls of Ariavel crumble under fire and smoke, Princess Elara makes the most dangerous decision of her life:

she surrenders herself voluntarily as a political hostage to the dreaded fortress of Drakondar to spare her people and free four hundred artisans from slavery.

Confined in a palace of basalt and forced to wear a bracelet of Cold Ash—a silent metal that smothers the ancestral magic burning beneath her skin—Elara expects to find a cruel tyrant. Instead, she comes face to face with

Kael Drakhar: the legendary Dragon King.

Marked by living runes and oaths carved into his very flesh, Kael rules a land where stone remembers every word spoken and punishes every betrayal.

He seeks not carnage, but order. And, against all laws of the court, he sees in his captive princess not a submissive prisoner, but a brilliant strategist whose courage and truth challenge his own control.

As silent betrayals fester in the Council’s corridors and an ancient subterranean entity threatens to devour the city’s foundations, the enmity between them transforms into a magnetic and dangerous alliance.

To defeat the conspiracy and forge a true peace, Elara and Kael must choose between the silence of the ash that imprisons... or the fire of a truth capable of shattering every chain.