Following the events of the Fourth Trial, an army led by Masks hunts the two fugitives as they escape the city. A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT takes readers into the heart of the Empire as Laia and Elias fight their way north to liberate Laias brother from the horrors of Kauf Prison. Now, the sequel will set the world on fire. After the Fourth Trial, Laia and Elias are on the run from the army, the Commandant and Helene, the new Blood Shrike. Elias and Laia are running for their lives. When the Martials murder 17-year-old Laia’s grandparents and her older brother, Darin, is taken prisoner, Laia escapes into the catacombs under. A warm and witty story of a young woman who gets swept up. Since then, the Martials have ruled the land with an iron fist, subjugating the Scholars into poverty and sometimes slavery. A beautifully woven family memoir that coalesces into a vivid history of two very different Chinas. In 2015, one book emerged as the most highly acclaimed fantasy debut, An Ember in the Ashes. The shifting network of alliances and betrayals can almost be too elaborate to follow at times, but Tahirs skill with her characters is more than enough to. Five hundred years ago, the Martials conquered the Scholars. The Augurs appoint four Aspirants in total. The prestigious position is appointed by the sainted Augurs, red-eyed older men who can see into the future. His plans for escape are curbed when he’s suddenly named an Aspirant. They will have to 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.īound 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. The pressure is getting to be too much, and Elias plans to run away from the Empire as soon as he graduates from Blackcliff. As the book begins, they are in grave danger. Elias is a soldier who defied army orders and defected to the rebel cause. Laia is a former slave who escaped her master’s clutches. Laia and Elias are determined to break into the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison to save Laia's brother, even if for Elias it means giving up his last chance at freedom. A Torch Against the Night picks up where the first book, An Ember in the Ashes, left off.
After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt Elias and Laia as they flee the city of Serra.
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