The Ember-Tide Protocol

Tessa Marwick was born the night her kingdom burned, and she has been mapping its scars ever since. When the ghost of Prince Aldric Vane rises at the head of an army carrying fire-breathing dragons, the Ember-Tide Protocol, an ancient failsake sealed beneath Vellumar, becomes the prize that could end the war in a single, terrible night. Dragged from her dusty archive by Sir Roderic Kane and hunted by Ashguard Brother Kael, Tessa discovers her own bloodline holds the cipher: she is the heir to Caelith the Dragon, and the dragon's memories are waking inside her. Across a realm splintering between the iron throne of King Caelum and the silken promises of Queen Sylthara of the Weavers, Tessa races to outpace Prince Aldric's Cinderwraith before he burns the world to claim a throne he refuses to release. Old Maevren, Brennic Cole, and High Monk Theron offer fragments of truth, but truth is a blade with two edges, and every answer demands a price. With Caelith's fire coiling in her veins and Commander Elara Vane closing the net, Tessa must choose: surrender the Protocol, betray her blood, and watch the dead prince march unchallenged, or unlock a power that no cartographer, no queen, and no dragon was ever meant to command.