AN EMBER IN THE ASHES - excerpt reveal and giveaway!
I'm really excited to be a part of this! MTV has a sneak peak of the upcoming YA novel AN EMBER IN THE ASHES: Of her story, Tahir says, “EMBER takes place in a brutal Empire inspired by ancient Rome. The book follows two people: Laia, a lower-class girl scraping out a living on the Empire’s backstreets, and Elias, an Empire soldier who wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. EMBER asks a lot of questions, chief among them, how far would you go—for family or freedom, for love or power?” And because no great fantasy novel would be complete without a big, big baddie, Tahir has created a very special character in the story’s villain, the Commandant. “This is a woman who is perfectly fine with whipping a 10-year-old to death, or punishing a slave with a branding. In fact, she takes satisfaction in such cruelty,” the author explained. “For the Commandant, everything is about control, so she runs Blackcliff with an iron fist. But despite her malevole...