These Flaming Stars

synopsis
When a trusted member of the Council betrays the Lost Cities to the ogres, a long-awaited war between the two enemies is declared and causes destruction and havoc to curse the innocents who had no say in this matter. After decades of bloodshed, the ogres come out victorious and force the elves to fall under the rule of their king. The once pristine Lost Cities, home to the most regal of species, has finally fallen and the ruins are too broken to ever be put back together.

And others’ wonder if - no, when - they’ll be next.

Aurria Cordain is bitter towards the ogres for snatching a life of hope and joy away from her even when she did nothing against them. Born to two soldiers during the last stretch of the Dark War, she watched with her own two eyes the chaos it caused and the death of her loving and caring parents - the only anchor she had left to hold on to. At the mere age of ten, Aurria had already witnessed more heartbreak and loss than other elves have in their centuries of life.

Now seventeen and a slave to the ogres, she hides her resentment in plain sight, working hard to prove that she isn’t worthless in the dark and lonely abyss known as King Dimitar’s royal castle in Ravagog. Aurria obediently does the ogres bidding while a dangerous storm rages inside her heart.

But when she stumbles upon the truth concealed by thousands upon thousands of lies, her world is crushed and she finds herself in a whirlwind of traitorous schemes, betrayals by those she never expected, alliances formed by elves she can’t stand, and the story of the other side that was never told, all so that she can stop an evil that has emerged from a soul she was too naive to trust.

Yet no one ever said that anything in life, when you’re fighting for light, is easy.

Especially when you start to fall for the enemy - the one person you can never have.

release date
soon