Sable Croft is the last warden of the High Chain - an outlaw feeding forbidden mountain lamps against the drinking dark, eleven years after the crown hanged the rest of her line. When she's finally taken, she expects a rope of her own. Instead the crown offers a writ: guard the King's Remembrancer on his survey of the north, and her village keeps its lights.
Torin Vale is the crown's memory - the officer whose beautiful, damning transcripts sent eleven innocents to the gallows in the great purge. He has spent every night since knotting their names into a rope the crown doesn't know exists. Now he's been sent north with a sealed order he hasn't been allowed to read, a colonel who burns records for a living, and a bodyguard who has every reason to cut his throat on the first dark mile.
Bound by iron, writ, and a hatred that keeps snagging on something warmer, Sable and Torin cross a starving country toward the truth of the purge - and toward the Everbright, the legend walking the ridgelines, drinking the light of a realm that starved her first. To face what's coming, the last sink of the Marches and the crown's own remembrancer must do the one thing neither has survived before: trust the person who broke them.
EVERBRIGHT is the second novel of The Last Kindling - a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers adult romantic fantasy of vengeance and justice, rebellion and remembrance, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after and a door left open for Book Three. Each book follows a new couple and stands alone.
Perfect for readers who love grumpy-meets-guilty, forced proximity in frozen mountains, one-bed protocol with clinical justifications, found family that sings back at the dark, and a grand gesture made of names read aloud.