Ash Beneath the Snow: A Tale of Fire, Frost, and Broken Treaties

Her fire was never meant to answer his ice. Captain Saira Vey has survived desert war, court bargains, and the burden of carrying a dead mother's legend. Escorting Qhazara's delegation to Caldrin Spire should be another duty: guard the treaty renewal, obey her command, and keep the ancient peace between fire and ice intact. Then Kael Rimeborne, heir to glacial Veyrholm, arrives with winter in his veins and silence sharpened into a weapon. When an assassin strikes during the renewal ceremony, Saira's flame and Kael's frost collide before every court that has been taught to fear them. Instead of destroying each other, their magic creates an impossible resonance-evidence of a forbidden power the Treaties of Ash and Frost were written to erase. With priests demanding containment, diplomats trading accusations, and hidden agents moving beneath Caldrin's black stone, Saira and Kael must uncover who turned peace into a trap. But every answer pulls them closer to the one person their nations have trained them to resist-and toward a truth old enough to break the law that keeps their world apart. Ash Beneath the Snow is Book One of The Emberfrost Saga, a nine-book, slow-burn fantasy romance series of prophecy, political betrayal, and magic that always demands a price. The central love story unfolds across the saga.