Ember Path

He never meant to walk a sacred road.Nino Lombard is a disgraced scout of the Magister's Guard — exiled, desperate, and given one chance at redemption: find the renegade priests and deliver them to justice. His sister's life is the price of failure.It should be simple.But the very people he is meant to capture save his life in the desert. And when Illura — the Seer of Battonia — looks at him with eyes that have already read his fate, the line between duty and conscience begins to fracture.Nino tells himself he can delay the inevitable. If he keeps everyone close, he can keep them safe.He is wrong.As the Embermane Rebellion gathers strength, his former commander Sancia Harrat closes in — the one woman who knows exactly where he failed. And Nino's refusal to choose is itself a betrayal. He must decide whether to remain an echo of other men's power… or stand in his own light.If he cannot claim the flame, the ember will die. And with it, the rebellion.A richly atmospheric romantic epic fantasy set in a desert kingdom where fire tests pride, love burns dangerous, and prophecy binds the Lombards to a rising revolution.Book 2 of the Way of the Wands series. Read The Unbound Flame first.