Burn of the Everflame

War has reached every corner of Emarion. Ophiucae marches an army of mortals through the north, sworn to wipe out the Descended, the god-born line that has ruled for generations. To the south, the Guardians of the Everflame have spent decades waiting on a rebellion of their own.

Diem Bellator, a village healer crowned queen of Lumnos, has neither the army nor the allies to face both fronts alone. She and the continent's other rulers, the Crowns, must set aside old rivalries and stand together.

Her bond with Prince Luther Corbois, cold and watchful since the day they met, has become something neither of them intended. The Crowns are hiding a secret of their own: a heart left without its match will burn the world down rather than go unclaimed.

This closing volume of The Kindred's Curse Saga is the fourth entry in Penn Cole's slow-burn romantasy about a healer who becomes a queen. It is the longest book in the series, and it ends the war the first three books built toward.