The Unbound Pyre

About this book

In Veshar, a terraced mountain-city warmed by hearth spirits bound to human households through sacred contracts, twenty-one-year-old Iren Varos survives as a mute-voiced, smoke-blind ash-sifter with hands scarred beyond priestly use. Her secret work supplying unbound tinder to the city’s poor becomes perilous when Otash, a hunted wildfire spirit, breaks into her cellar and tells her the Temple’s holy fire laws were born from an erased atrocity. As Iren is drawn into a dangerous alliance with the desperate, seductive spirit, High Pyre-Lord Cassien—her former betrothed and the Temple’s golden heir—offers her everything she lost in exchange for surrender. With the Festival of Ashes approaching, Iren must decide whether safety, love, and belonging are worth the price of a city built on captive flame.

Book details

Genres:

New Adult, Dark Romantic Fantasy, Political Fantasy

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-18

Content rating:

R