‘Even the smallest child in Avar knows that not all fairy tales come true…’

Josiah Rose was a man raised in death. His mother died when he was young and the Kingdom of Avar was run by the Vampiric Regime of Sias Amman—descendant of the victors of the War of Blood Hollow.

After his father’s passing, Josiah was caught in a fierce battle between his step mother over his childhood home. Now at twenty-one, there is only one word surrounding the market: Marriage.

Talks of nobles far and wide coming for a ball to swoon one Prince Malik Amman ring loud as Josiah finds himself in a carriage on his way into the lions den. Now Josiah has to put on his best act to survive dancing with eyes as red as blood. All the while, it feels like someone’s staring at him in the shadows.

How does one dance in slippers made of glass? How does one not get burned to cinders by dragon’s flame?

Cinders is created by Emma Silver, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author

Cinders

My mother once gave me some advice when I was younger. ‘Josiah, whenever you  feel lost, trust the higher powers. They know your heart and soul’, she had told me. I never truly followed the higher powers, finding them to be useless when they took my parents away from me. Despite this, being at the lowest I possibly could’ve been, I found myself calling upon the higher powers for a miracle.


My prayer to the higher power was silent. I knew that if I spoke the words out loud, my emotions would get the better of me and I would start crying. I refused to allow this to be the time I cried; my pride wouldn’t allow it to happen. My attention on the glass pile was switched towards the lone window in the room.


Chapter 15: The Slipper