The Vow Beneath Embers

She survived the fire. Now the Empire wants her to burn for it.

Sera Ashford has spent ten years hiding her secret-the fire that lives beneath her skin. In a world where magic is hunted, controlled, and weaponized by the Empire, discovery means only one fate: a collar... or death.

But when a powerful Imperial Inquisitor arrives and calls her by name, everything changes.

Cassian Vane is feared across the Empire-a hunter of rogue mages, bound by a magic he cannot escape. Yet instead of turning S...