When Starlight Burns
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Last published Mon, Nov 3, 2025
When starlight burns, the forgotten flame awakens.
In the city of Astralis, beauty is built on ruin.
Once a shining jewel of the Seelie realm, its streets now run with secrets-and blood.
Ashira remembers nothing of the fire that destroyed her world, only the man who found her among the ashes and taught her to survive. Now grown and forged into a weapon, she serves the shadows as an assassin bound by debt and silence. But when her latest mark draws her into the glittering heart of the upper ring-and into the path of a stranger with eyes like stormlight-her carefully built world begins to fracture.
Riven hides behind a crown and a curse, next in line to rule a court gilded in lies. The assassin who crosses his path is the first to make him bleed, and the only one who might unearth the truth buried beneath his throne.
In a city where moonlight burns and starlight lies, two fates entwine-one born of ruin, the other of fire.
And when the truth rises from the ashes, it will set Astralis ablaze once more.
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