Ashes of Starlight: A Dark Romantic Fantasy

By Ellen Marlowe

A thief. A chained star. A city powered by a beautiful lie.
In the ash-choked city of Veyra, light is everything: power, medicine, status, survival.
For the wealthy, star-lamps blaze over marble terraces. For the poor, silver ash poisons the streets, and Serin Vale's sister is running out of time.
So when Lord Marrow Vey offers Serin enough coin to buy years of medicine, she accepts the impossible job: break beneath the Grand Observatory and steal the legendary Star's Pulse.
But the relic is not a jewel.
It is Caelion Ryss, a chained celestial whose suffering powers the city.
When Serin touches his restraints, she escapes, marked by stolen starlight and bound to the immortal she was sent to rob. Through him, she discovers the truth Veyra was built to hide: the city's beauty is fed by generations of theft, lies, and blood.
As Serin and Caelion's dangerous bond deepens into something neither can afford, Marrow tightens his grip. He knows Serin's weakness. He knows the price of her love.
To save her sister, free the man she betrayed, and stop Marrow from waking the dead star beneath Veyra, Serin must become more than a thief.
She must become the fire that burns the system down.
Ashes of Starlight is a dark romantic fantasy for readers who love chained immortals, thief heroines, forbidden magic, gothic cities, dangerous bargains, and slow-burn romance woven through rebellion and sacrifice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H17GMP8G
• ISBN13: 9798196217401
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"