An Ember in the Ashes · Book 2
A Torch Against the Night
- Published
- 30 August 2016
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9781101998878
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Torch Against the Night followed roughly sixteen months later, on August 30, 2016, matching the opener's length at 464 pages, continuing Laia and Elias's alternating first-person story as their shared rebellion pulls them further from opposite sides of the Martial Empire's caste system.
Its place in An Ember in the Ashes
A Torch Against the Night is book 2 in the An Ember in the Ashes series. It follows An Ember in the Ashes. It is followed by A Reaper at the Gates. See the full An Ember in the Ashes reading order.
In the brutal, Rome-inspired Martial Empire, Laia is a Scholar girl whose family is destroyed by the Empire's soldiers; to save her captured brother, she agrees to spy inside Blackcliff, the elite academy that trains the Empire's most ruthless killers, the Masks. There she crosses paths with Elias, a Blackcliff student and the academy's most gifted soldier, who wants nothing more than to desert the only life he's ever known. Told in alternating first-person chapters from Laia and Elias, the story pulls them from…
Editions
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781536417715
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