The Ashes
We Bury
Some fires cannot be extinguished.
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Some fires cannot be extinguished.
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The Inquisition burned the Queen. Then they came for everyone else.
Amelia Delarue survived by being nobody. A sorceress in hiding, scraping together enough gold to buy her way out of a kingdom that would put her on the next pyre. She has Chloé — a would-be knight with more honour than sense — and a promise she means to keep. She has a plan. She does not need complications.
Then the resistance puts the most wanted child in Tourain into her hands.
Carry him north and the road out of the capital opens. Refuse and she doesn't leave at all.
So she runs him through enemy-held country with an Inquisition captain on their trail and magic that answers to her feelings instead of her will. Every time she loses control of herself, she loses control of it.
Amelia doesn't do heroics. She doesn't do hope. But the boy won't stop talking, and he won't stop trusting her.
Walking away was supposed to be easy.
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By day, J. Edward Cox keeps aircraft in the air as a flight instructor; by night, he sends his characters through considerably worse. A former commercial pilot and Royal Danish Air Force officer, he traded the cockpit's hard discipline for fiction about pressure, consequence, and people forced into impossible choices, across both fantasy and science fiction. The eye for what can go wrong, and how fast, carried over. He writes from Denmark, where he can be found cooling off in a lake in summer or playing his guitar by the fireplace through the dark winters. The Ashes We Bury is his debut novel, and the first of many.