A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes)

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By Sabaa Tahir

The second book of An Ember in the Ashes. Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf, the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison, to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival, and Elias is determined to help her, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.

But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against them: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and — most heartbreaking of all — Helene, Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike, bound to Marcus’s will and given a torturous mission of her own: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape, and kill them both.

First published 2016