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Court of Ash: The Ashen Courts - Book One
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Series: The Ashen Courts, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798195820824
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 6 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 6 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A forgotten manuscript. A sealed portal. A prophecy written in ash. Seraphine Sera Vael has built her life around silence, structure, and the certainty of dead things. Hidden among the endless shelves of the Voss Archive, she spends her nights cataloguing ancient manuscripts no one else cares enough to touch. It is a quiet existence, predictable, solitary, and safely ordinary. Until the night she discovers a manuscript that should not exist. Bound in dark leather and warm beneath her fingertips, the book is written in a language unknown to any living scholar. And on its final page, written in impossible ink, is her name. The moment Sera touches the text, a portal tears open in the walls of the archive and drags her into another world, a world ruled by five ancient courts bound together by fragile magic, political tension, and centuries of dangerous balance. Now trapped within the Court of Ash, a fortress carved from black stone and living fire, Sera finds herself under the watch of Lord Kael, the immortal ruler of the First Court. Cold, controlled, and impossibly powerful, Kael believes Sera may be the key to translating the manuscript he has spent decades searching for. The bargain is simple.
Translate the manuscript, and he will send her home. But the deeper Sera delves into the text, the more terrifying the truth becomes. The manuscript is not merely an ancient record.
It is a prophecy. A prophecy foretelling the collapse of the Five Courts and the arrival of a woman born between two worlds who will either restore the balance or destroy it entirely. As rival factions move in the shadows and the ancient magic holding the courts together begins to fracture, Sera is pulled deeper into a deadly web of secrets, power, and forbidden history. And the closer she grows to Kael, the more dangerous everything becomes. Because some doors were never meant to be opened.
And some destinies cannot be escaped. Court of Ash is the first book in The Ashen Courts series, a dark fantasy romance filled with slow-burn tension, political intrigue, ancient magic, morally complex characters, and a heroine forced to uncover the truth about who, and what, she really is. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric fantasy, dangerous courts, hidden prophecies, and romance forged in fire and ruin.
It is a prophecy. A prophecy foretelling the collapse of the Five Courts and the arrival of a woman born between two worlds who will either restore the balance or destroy it entirely. As rival factions move in the shadows and the ancient magic holding the courts together begins to fracture, Sera is pulled deeper into a deadly web of secrets, power, and forbidden history. And the closer she grows to Kael, the more dangerous everything becomes. Because some doors were never meant to be opened.
And some destinies cannot be escaped. Court of Ash is the first book in The Ashen Courts series, a dark fantasy romance filled with slow-burn tension, political intrigue, ancient magic, morally complex characters, and a heroine forced to uncover the truth about who, and what, she really is. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric fantasy, dangerous courts, hidden prophecies, and romance forged in fire and ruin.
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