A Crown of Sunlit Ash

Liora is a lamp-girl of the lower city — until a guttering candle blazes white in her hands and marks her the first Lanternbound in five hundred years. Aurelian, heir to the Sunlit Court, is the Warden ordered to snuff her out.

Then the Long Dark strikes, the Lion’s own star begins to fail, and the prisoner becomes the only soul alive who can relight it. Enemies, bound by a dying sky — and a hand, offered and refused, that will one day decide the fate of eight courts.