‘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

“Now what in the h*ll was all that?!”


I wasn’t going to let Cora intimidate me again if she was going to marry Alois. I knew she was distraught at losing her power over me when I was swept away by the princes, but this was a new low. I was standing alone in a battlefield with opponents on all sides.


“And who are you to request my business, boy?” She sneered at me, and I had it in my right mind to punch her in the face. I stomped over to her, causing her to back herself against the wall. I grabbed her by her dress.


“You listen to me, Cora,” I growled lowly at her, my eyes more silver then blue from my anger, “I will not allow you to take what is still good in this place.” I had seen the tension in the room, and the way Matthias had pulled me to the side when I arrived told me everything I needed to know.


Chapter 31: Rose Have Thorns