Prince of Ash and Root: Legacy Flames: 1

Some fires are lit to keep the dark away. Others are lit for revenge, and don't know how to stop burning.Fourteen-year-old Prince Kael Guerrero has spent his whole life training for a war he isn't allowed to fight. Ever since his grandfather was murdered by the Faates, the green-skinned people of the deep forest, his father has ruled from a place of grief hardened into hatred, and Kael is tired of being kept safe while his kingdom marches toward disaster.When a strange, ageless wanderer presses a warm, humming stone into his hand and whispers of lands no map dares to draw, Kael makes a choice that will change everything: he slips past the castle walls with his two closest friends, quick-witted Callous and sharp-eyed Laran, determined to reach the Faates before his father's army does, and to end a war neither side can win.What he finds in the forest is nothing like the stories he was raised on. Homes grown from living trees. Children playing at the water's edge. A grief that mirrors his father's own, generations deep. And a secret about the land itself, the lakes, the mountains, the wanderer who has always been just a little too strange to be entirely human, that no one in the kingdom has been told in a very long time.Kael wanted to stop a war. Instead, he may have only changed its shape