An Ember in the Ashes
- Published
- 28 April 2015
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780008108427
- Type
- novel
About this book
An Ember in the Ashes (April 2015, 464 pages) opens the quartet in the brutal, Rome-inspired Martial Empire, following Laia, a Scholar girl who agrees to spy inside Blackcliff -- the elite academy that trains the Empire's ruthless Masks -- to save her captured brother, and Elias, Blackcliff's most gifted student, who wants nothing more than to desert the only life he's known.
Key facts about An Ember in the Ashes
An Ember in the Ashes is a novel by Sabaa Tahir. Readers have had it since 28 April 2015. It runs to 464 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of An Ember in the Ashes. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008108427 to find the main one.
An Ember in the Ashes is book 1 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. A Sky Beyond the Storm is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 December 2020.
Additionally, Sabaa Tahir writes Heir Duology as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, Empire is the latest published Sabaa Tahir book on file, from 22 September 2026.
About Sabaa Tahir
Sabaa Tahir is a Pakistani American author best known for An Ember in the Ashes, a young adult fantasy series set in a brutal, Rome-inspired empire, following an enslaved young woman and a soldier of the ruling class whose fates become entangled through resistance, rebellion, and forbidden connection. See every Sabaa Tahir book in order.
Its place in An Ember in the Ashes
An Ember in the Ashes is book 1 in the An Ember in the Ashes series. It is followed by A Torch Against the Night. 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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780698176461
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008108427
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008149635