Trial of Embers: The Sin Courts - Book One of Seven
They call her Hollow. He's been ordered to make sure she stays that way - permanently.
Wren Callows survives the port town of Saltmere the way she survives everything: fast, sharp, and owned by no one. Which is the problem. At eighteen, the Rite of Ash left her wrist bare - unclaimed by any of the seven courts, an outlaw by existence. She's hidden it for two years.
Then a bounty finds her, and Wren is dragged in chains before the assembled courts of Sevenmarch with one option left: petition a court to claim her by trial. Only Wrath says yes - mostly to spite Pride.
Now she has one season in Pyrrhen, a fortress carved into a dormant volcano, to prepare for the Pyre Gauntlet: three duels against champions who have trained since childhood, under a single rule that has killed more candidates than any blade - never strike in cold blood. Wrath's fire answers fury. Real fury. And nothing about Wren's carefully controlled, transactional heart qualifies.
Her trainer is Corvan Ashgrave, heir of Wrath - infuriating, honest, and carrying his court's power like a wound that hasn't finished happening. He has orders. If she fails the trial, the executioner's duty is his.
Neither of them intends to like each other. Neither of them intends what happens in the training halls, either.
But when Wren steps into the Gauntlet, she does something no one has done in seven hundred years - and the realm's most powerful people stop wanting her dead and start wanting her found out. Because the trials are not what anyone was taught they are. And something very old, very deep beneath the world, has just noticed the one soul it cannot touch.
The first book in a seven-book romantasy series. A complete trial. An impossible girl. An executioner who has to choose. Perfect for readers of Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas.
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