Bright We Burn

Lada rules Wallachia the way she always swore she would: orderly, free of crime, and merciless toward anyone who breaks her law. Her peace with the Ottoman Empire rests on borders she will not respect. When she sends the sultan's peace envoy back to him in pieces, war can no longer be avoided.

Mehmed is now sultan, more powerful than he has ever been and more isolated too. He stands between the empire he is building and the two people who have been part of his life since childhood. Radu is still shaken by not knowing what became of Nazira and Cyprian, and he is drawn back to the new Ottoman capital as the quarrel among the three nears its violent end.

This final book of the series reimagines Vlad the Impaler as a woman fighting for power in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Her brother and the sultan who loved her stand at her side in the story.

Expect a bleak, bloody historical fantasy of politics and war, driven by three people who were once inseparable and now stand on opposing sides, with a conclusion the story treats as inevitable.