Burning Embers

Forced into a world of violence and predetermined fates, James Ryder must decide the vile decision between vengeance and hope. A painfully human story about the acceptance of loss, the debauchery of men, the amorality that's lives within us all, and the meager embers that rise from ashes. Burning Embers is a high-fantasy novel about the hope that evolves from pain and the struggle of vengeance that weighs on everyone's hearts; it is a story that reveals the natural struggle of morality through a coming of age tale in the wake of war. James' stoic and abundantly ancient surroundings further his sympathy to all of life and how that very empathy consequentially leads to pain and grief. It questions the views of good and evil whilst revealing an antagonist who is deceitfully immoral by fraudulent tales, yet just as human with his motives and relationships. The mythology, characters, and plot of Burning Embers is essential to the duality that comes with all of life; as, if there was no evil then nothing would be good, and all of life would be a fireless grey.

For death looms within the porters of life; winter follows the warmth of summer; flowers gleam from the bodies of our dead; and embers burn by the bark of nature's death. All is connected by the end as it is the beginning. The cruel and ugly live beside that which is warm, and for that they are beautiful.