Daylight of Ash

When Ashfall burns, Elira Ashborne is left with only one impossible choice: marry the enemy’s most feared Crown Enforcer or watch her people die. Kael Varyn is not offering mercy. He is offering containment, law, and the cold promise of survival.

But Elira is not a quiet bride. She is fire hidden beneath court silk, a last ember the Dominion failed to extinguish. As blood-bound vows pull her into the heart of a brutal empire, she discovers that the palace is built on lies, the crown is hiding a deadly ledger, and the man meant to cage her may be the only one standing between her and total destruction.

In a world where crowns are weapons and love is the most dangerous throne, fire and steel must decide whether to break each other—or burn the whole empire down.

Daylight of Ash is Book One of The Ash & Crown Accord Series, a dark romantasy and political fantasy novel filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, forced marriage, court intrigue, betrayal, rebellion, and slow-burn danger.