A Shadow in the Ember

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new compelling Flesh and Fire series-set in the beloved Blood and Ash world.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals a Maiden as the Fates promised Seraphena Mierel's future has never been hers. </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chosen</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However Sera's real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania-she's not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission-one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love become his weakness and then...end him. If she fails she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sera has always known what she is. Chosen. Consort. Assassin. Weapon. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. A </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>monster</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Until </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>him. </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until the Primal of Death's unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. And his seductive touch ignites a passion she's never allowed herself to feel and cannot feel for him. But Sera has never had a choice. Either way her life is forfeit-it always has been as she has been forever touched by Life and Death.</span></p><p><br></p>