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A Torch Against the Night
A Young Adult Fantasy Novel by Sabaa Tahir
Book 2 of the An Ember in the Ashes Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Prison Break,
- On the Run,
- Quest,
- Rebellion,
- Former Friends
This book is for you if you're into...
- High-stakes prison breaks in brutal fantasy empires
- Multiple POVs where former friends become deadly enemies
- Relentless pursuit with supernatural threats and ruthless rulers
Book two in the New York Times bestselling series • One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time • A USA Today bestseller
Elias and Laia are running for their lives.. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.
Bound to Marcus's will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape...and kill them both.
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