Aug 15, 2026
The Blood of Kings: Legends has another fabulous addition. Niki Florica's Son of Embers promises a great story. Listen in to learn more
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A scarred squire and a girl with poison in her slippers must outrun the dark before it claims them both.
Son of Embers by Niki Florica
He's the slave a dozen masters threw
away.
She's the lady no one in Er'Rets knows
what to do with.
Now, they're both wanted by a town full
of traitors… and one another's best chance of escape.
Born to serve, slave-turned-squire Mezaedo Chevyah was sent to Har
Sha'ar with a simple plan: investigate a noblewoman's
disappearance, and prove to the Kingsguard that he's worth keeping.
Instead, he finds a bounty on his head, the voice of a dead villain
stirring in the back of his mind, and two unlikely allies — one, a
traitor, the other a lady as strange as her poison-toed
slippers.
Lady Halona Pitney — anomaly, herbalist, and self-proclaimed
harbinger of chaos — came back to Har Sha'ar to find her missing
grandmother and confront her childhood friend, Erro Coble. But Erro
has changed, and the secrets he's keeping are the kind that get
people killed. So when he asks her to help him smuggle a wounded
squire out of the village — alive — how can she refuse?
Forced into an alliance no one wants, Mezaedo, Halona, and Erro
have one chance to escape Har Sha'ar alive before every bounty
hunter in the mountains closes in. But the wilderness beyond the
walls hides a darkness worse than any of them imagined. Loyalties
will fracture. Secrets will surface. And what's growing between the
squire and the lady may cost more than they know how to pay.
To survive what waits, Mezaedo and Halona will have to trust each
other — and the God who carried them this far — before the dark
swallows everyone they came to save.
Two unlikely hearts. Enemies on every
side. A faith that may be the only thing left standing.
From the bestselling fantasy author of
the Blood of Kings and Kinsman Chronicles, Son of Embers is a
stand-alone, faith-forward romantasy set in Jill Williamson's
beloved Er'Rets — perfect for readers who enjoy slow-burn romance
wrapped in quirky characters, courageous faith, and prose that
crackles like a hearth in a winter storm.
READERS WILL
LOVE…
- A slow-burn romance built one stitched wound and shared fire at a time.
- A slave-turned-squire whose smiles will completely undo you — even with a bounty on his head.
- An audacious noblewoman the world has never known what to do with, with poison in her slippers and chaos in her shoes.
- A childhood friend turned traitor — and the impossible question of whether love can pull him back.
- A trio of misfits forced into the wilderness beyond the walls.
- Faith that gets tested in the snow, the cave, the ash — and a town full of traitors hunting their every step.
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