The tyrant has fallen. The empire is in ashes. But beneath the ocean, an ancient terror has awakened. Embers of the Deep is the explosive third installment in the bestselling Scent of Cinders saga, continuing the epic dark romantasy journey of Lyra Morvath and Warlord Gideon Drake directly following the shattering events of Tide of Ashes. Having broken the Five Alphas of the frozen North and brought the Solar Empire of the South to its knees, Lyra—the once-broken cellar thrall who claimed the ancient starlight of the True Sovereign—finally returns home to the Silver Coast alongside her savage, fiercely protective mate, Gideon Drake. With the four legendary Sun Wyrms freed and the conscript armies liberated, peace across two continents seems within their grasp. Yet every broken chain demands a reckoning. The catastrophic shockwaves that tore open the imperial atolls and shattered the Dragon's Maw did not just liberate the seas—they fractured the ancient, lightless tectonic floor of the Leviathan Trench. Two miles beneath the surf, the long-sealed Abyssal Vault has cracked wide open. A primeval power that predates the first wolf and the rising of the sun is stirring in the black water: the Abyssal Mother, an elder titan of drowned void and liquid shadow whose worshippers once drowned entire civilizations in ice and brine. When northern fishing skiffs drift into harbor carrying crews frozen solid in warm seas, and strange black core-glass etched with the runes of the First Deep washes ashore, Lyra and Gideon realize the war for the sun was only the preamble. To save both realms from an apocalyptic deluge, the Ash Queen and her scarred warlord must forge an unprecedented alliance between the northern wolf packs, the free southern provinces, and the four sovereign wyrms. But the dark waters harbor secrets that strike at the very origin of Lyra’s starlight marrow—and a terrifying primordial hunger that threatens to tear her and Gideon’s fated mating bond apart from the inside out. Brutal, atmospheric, and brimming with unyielding romantic spice, visceral warfare, and breathtaking world-building, Embers of the Deep continues Lyra and Gideon's 4-book journey toward an eternal throne. “The treaty of the Sun is broken. The waters are rising. And the deep is coming to collect its blood.”
