He never meant to walk a sacred road.

Nino Lombard is a disgraced scout of the Magister’s Guard, exiled and sent east with a single command: find the renegade priests and deliver them to the Magister’s reckoning. In return, his sister will be spared.

It should be simple.

But the very people he is meant to capture save him from death in the desert, and the line between duty and conscience begins to fracture.

Among them is Illura—the Seer of Battonia—entrancing, perceptive, and quietly certain that the path beneath his feet is older than rebellion, older than empire. She sees the direction of his steps long before he does.

Nino believes he can delay the inevitable. If he keeps certain people within his reach, he tells himself, he can keep them safe.

He is wrong.

As the Embermane Rebellion gathers strength in hidden places, Sancia Harrat—his former commander and the only woman who knows where he failed—tightens her hold on the field.

When darkness closes in and time runs thin, Nino’s refusal to choose becomes its own kind of betrayal. He must decide whether to remain an echo of other men’s power… or stand in his own light at last.

If he cannot claim the flame as his own, the ember will die.

And with it, the rebellion.

The Ember Path is a slow-burn romantic epic fantasy of redemption, rising revolt, and elemental magic set in the desert kingdom of Battonia—where fire tests pride, love burns dangerous, and prophecy whispers that the Lombards must rise together or fall divided.

The Way is buried.
But the fire remembers.

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