Either way, her life is forfeit-it always has been, as she has been forever touched by Life and Death. And his seductive touch ignites a passion she’s never allowed herself to feel and cannot feel for him. She was promised to the primal of death a decade before her birth, to be his consort. The land of Lasania is dying the blight as it has been called, encroaches on the land a little more everyday. Until the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. A Shadow in Ember is set many years before Blood and Ash. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort.

If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. Sera has always known what she is. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania-she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission-one target. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire series-set in the beloved Blood and Ash world. Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with with reading apps installed. However, she has been trained her whole life to kill him to save her people. Taking place many years before From Blood and Ash, A Shadow in the Ember follows Seraphena as she is the chosen consort to the Primal of Death. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. A Shadow in the Ember is the start of the prequel series to From Blood and Ash.

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