The Ember That Remains

Two years of gathering fragments. Two years of believing the greatest danger had already passed.Alexzander and his companions have built something no one thought possible - an alliance spanning dwarf and human, forest and coast, old grudges finally set aside for a common purpose. Kragmoor's own hostile Thanes have been won over. A forgotten forest has opened its borders. A drowned kingdom's memory has surfaced from beneath the waves. Every scattered piece of an ancient crown draws closer to being whole again - and further from the hands of anyone who might misuse it.But the enemy that shattered the crown centuries ago was never the true danger.Someone has been waiting since before Vandoria's own founding - patient enough to watch an entire kingdom believe its worst enemy was already dead, patient enough to let an alliance form and a crown be gathered, simply so he could take what he wanted the moment it was finally, properly whole. As Alexzander's company races across three fronts to recover what remains, old wounds resurface, new trust is tested, and a redemption two years in the making faces its hardest test yet.Alexzander will finally face an opponent whose patience has outlasted empires - a man who watched the old kingdom fall once already, and has spent every century since making certain it never happens the same way twice. What he wants isn't conquest. It's completion. And he is willing to burn down everything the alliance has built to finally have it.The Ember That Remains is Book Three of The Vandoria Chronicles - a story about what alliances cost, what patience can corrupt across centuries, and what's worth protecting when the fire finally comes for everything you love.For readers who've followed Alexzander from a blacksmith's forge to a knight's hall to this - the ending three books have been building toward.