The Ember Queen

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and kingdoms bowed to ancient bloodlines, a young woman

family was gone, its people scattered. But Serenya, a war orphan and former scholar, had

of Eldara. Deep beneath the stone and bone, she found the Phoenix Altar-a

crown her. Fire danced around her shoulders like a cloak. Her eyes turned go

em into battle. They feared her-until she brought crops to the starving and water to t

no crown of jewels-but a circlet of phoenix feather and obsidian. The world

ally returned, little girls in every village li