Ember of Elyssia Quartet
3 primary works 4 total works planned
Book 1
The princess who led a rebellion to retake her home.
A magical prodigy who was imprisoned for fighting against her.
With the peace treaty signed, the island nation of Elyssia is free to rebuild and Caelin finally free to exercise her birthright. She dreams of shaping a nation of ideals—if her advisors would let her. Shut out of state affairs, it’s not until a scrawny, angry mage breaks into her tower that she begins to realize the ideals may have been buried in favor of victory.
Alain was so close to everything he’d ever wanted—until the siege on the Royal City fell apart. The Elyssian rebels captured him, beat him, worked him nearly to death. He seized an opportunity to escape and made for the site of his biggest failure, intending to use his prodigious magical talent to avenge his many losses.
He wasn’t expecting Caelin to commandeer his kidnapping attempt. She demands to be led to the prison camp so she can see it with her own eyes, and begrudgingly he agrees to lead her—if they aren’t ensnared first by her treacherous advisors, his old comrades out for her blood, or, worst of all, their own feelings.
Book 2
The Rosalian Legion made him a weapon.
The Queen of Elyssia made him her Prince Consort.
What he makes of himself is yet to be seen.
Caelin is Queen. The nation has settled into peace in the year since her coronation-until a masked intruder tries to take Alain captive and Alain's powerful magic backfires. Two things quickly become clear: the abundant power at Alain's disposal is not natural, and it is barely under his control.
To ward off war and to save Alain's life, they take off on one more mad dash across the island to try to reconstruct what the Legion wreaked on him-before he's lost to them for good.
Book 3
Alain would see Rosalia restored.
Caelin would see it destroyed.
But would either succeed?
Surrendered into his mother’s control, Alain must do the unthinkable to save himself, his sister, and reunite with Caelin: he must become the Archon. As Archon, he can undo the rotten tangles of the Legion from within, but he must lie at every turn to keep his secret safe—even from Caelin.
Meanwhile, Caelin rushes into Rosalia to rescue him and unearths a dangerous ancient relic that might obliterate the cryst load upon which the Seat of the Legion rests. The deeper she gets, the more desperate things seem, and nothing can prepare her for what she will find when she reaches the Seat.
Despite all of Alain's machinations and despite Caelin's devotion and strength, the corruption of the Legion may be too deep, and the secret wielded of power in the background too old and powerful to be unseated.