Applejack's spent most of her life homeschooled and working on the farm-until now. Starting fresh at Canterlot High, she finds herself welcomed into a new friend group... but things get a little more complicated when Rainbow Dash comes into the picture. Cocky, confident, and impossible to ignore, Dash immediately butts heads with the new girl. Their rivalry catches fire quick-but so does something neither of them expected. The closer they get, the more everyone around them starts to notice the tension growing into something more. But just when it seems like everything's finally falling into place, ghosts from Dash's past show up ready to ruin it all. Caught in the middle, Applejack is forced into a cruel bet: win Dash's heart... and then break it. She never meant to go with it. She never meant to hurt her. Now, with secrets hanging over them, the line between truth and lies is blurring-and so are their hearts. CONTAINS- - s/h - drinking -heavy angst THESE CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN THIS STORY DO NOT BELONG TO ME!!! THE ARTWORK ON THE COVER DOES NOT BELONG TO ME!!!

They called her the Ash-Born. They said she was ruined. Elara was cursed at birth: What she loves shall turn to ash. What she holds shall slip away. On the night of her tenth birthday, she woke screaming from a nightmare, and the two people who loved her most dissolved into grey dust in her arms. Believing she had murdered them, she fled into the wilds and locked herself away in a cottage of thorns - nine years of silence, nine years of fear, nine years of convincing herself that to love was to destroy. But the gods were not finished. They came to drag her to the Spire of Silence - a windowless tower where she would be buried alive in darkness, alone forever. She ran. And collided with Kael - a rogue scribe with sunlight in his hair and forbidden truths in his pockets. He had read the scrolls. He knew the curse was never hers - it was forged by fear, spoken out of envy, and designed to break her. He offers her something no one ever dared: not protection, not pity, but choice. Together, they flee across a realm stitched with ancient magic and haunted by divine wrath. Along the way they will meet Lyra, a mist-mage who sees Elara not as a curse but as a storm; and Corin, a celestial tracker who knew her parents and offers her the safety and belonging she has craved since childhood. Two men. Two futures. And Elara must choose: the love that promises safety... or the love that dares her to burn. But the gods are hunting. And as her own blood stands revealed as the architect of her ruin, Elara will learn the truth the gods died to hide: the curse was never meant to silence her love. It was meant to test it. And only love - fierce, unflinching, and unafraid - can turn moonlight through ash into something eternal