An ember in the ashes a novel

Summary: "Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, this is an epic fantasy about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. Laia is a scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution. Elias is the academy's finest soldier and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he's ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor. When Laia and Elias's paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are intertwined and that their choices will change the future of the empire"--Provided by publisher.

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