Crown of Ash and Desire: The Throne Demands Blood but His Heart Demands Love

di Lucian Reef (Autore)

Lucian Reef, 2025

Ten kisses. One curse. Two hearts that defy fate. They said the world ended when the blood dried. They were wrong. Peace in Valdaren is counted, not prayed: ropes across doors, salt on sills, a kettle breathing over coals. Arien—a soldier dragged from the border and told he's a king—insists on order the hard way: rations before rhetoric, doors before hymns, law spoken aloud instead of knives dressed as policy. But ash keeps its own memory. Priests dust the Temple of Three. The registry loses the same curve on the same page. Veyra raises black-rose banners on the eastern road and offers grain at the price of a crown. What the ledgers cannot account for is Rin. Gate-born. Bruise-proud. A shield who moves first and makes the throw miss. In the square he catches a stone meant for iron; in the court he bleeds on Arien's hand and turns a drill into a vow. The Sixth Moon teaches them how to break a pattern; the Thorned Path teaches them what to bleed for; the Open Oath asks what a name is worth. Above the ruined tower, three stars burn and vanish in the shape of a memory, and a sleeping clause in old rock wakes: in famine, in siege, or when a king wastes… only the beloved may lift the heart. Breath shared. Name offered. Dawn. As the inquest becomes a map and the city learns to breathe in counts instead of prayers, the curse that once punished desire begins to move like a living thing. Arien will not buy peace with blood; Rin will not survive a world where law and love are enemies. Between a foreign march and an altar that demands a price, they must choose whether to make their tenderness into policy—or watch the markets burn for want of a better story. CROWN OF ASH AND DESIRE delivers the series' fiercest turn: enemies-to-lovers raised to oath, slow burn to open flame, politics to geometry of the heart. If they fail, the bridge falls and the city follows. If they succeed, the stars themselves will have to realign to make room for dawn.

• Autore: Lucian Reef
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Lucian Reef
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231985784