Nyra has spent twenty-one years surviving in the Cinder-Slums — the ash-choked shadow community that exists just out of reach of the Sun-Drakes' eternal artificial light. She steals to eat, she moves to stay free, and she does not, under any circumstances, do anything sentimental.

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Then she takes the egg.

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It should be worthless — a charcoal-grey sphere of dead stone, cold and lightless, the remnant of a dragon species not seen in a thousand years. But when the egg cracks open in a void-energy fissure high on the caldera wall, what pushes out is very much alive: a Shadow-Wyvern with amethyst eyes, an affinity for cold that borders on lethal, and an instant, unbreakable Cinder-Link to Nyra's own newly awakened magic.

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She names him Nox. She would rather not have.

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Within hours, she is dragged into the palace of Solcarra — the gleaming city built on the Sun-Drakes' magical harvest — and brought before Arion, the kingdom's prince and the last Sun-Drake commander. The Cinder-Link between Nyra and Nox has activated a Tether: a rare bond that locks her and Arion's magic into mutual dependency. Separated, both of them deteriorate. Together, they are more powerful than either should be.

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It is, from Nyra's perspective, the worst possible outcome.

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What follows is a story about magic and power and the specific, grinding injustice of a system that burns the poor to keep the rich warm — but it is also, stubbornly and in defiance of Nyra's best intentions, a story about the things you cannot calculate: trust between people with every reason not to; the bond between a girl who learned young not to keep things and the creature who chose her anyway; and the difference between surviving and actually living.

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Ember & Void is an immersive, character-driven fantasy with a slow-burn romance, an intricate magical system, and a heroine who picks locks first and asks questions later.

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Nox & The Void-Born

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