Firebrand: Daughter of Bone

A Garden in Flames Novella

In the frozen shadow of Pax Akaedia, daughters disappear quietly.

Some are taken by the Priory before they can speak their own names. Some vanish into temple walls. Some are buried beneath obedience so completely the world forgets they were ever alive.

Mita refuses to forget.

A craftswoman with a dangerous mind and a body the empire underestimates at first glance, Mita survives by making herself useful--to merchants, smugglers, rebels, and the women hidden between them. But when a coded message arrives stitched into a bundle of linens, she's pulled into the growing underground network spiraling beneath the Colonate's polished skin.

A child is coming. A mother is desperate. The roads are closing. And somewhere beyond the city walls, something ancient is beginning to wake.

As riots spread after the quake at the coliseum and whispers of a living god move through the capital like smoke, Mita finds herself trapped between survival and rebellion--between the fragile possibility of love and the terrifying reality of bringing new life into a dying empire.

But revolutions are not built by kings.

They are built by the women who keep each other alive long enough to see the fire spread.

Firebrand: Daughter of Bone is a dark fantasy novella set during the events of Garden in Flames--a story of hidden resistance, dangerous intimacy, pregnancy, memory, and the quiet violence of empire. Perfect for readers who love mythic fantasy, political rebellion, morally complicated characters, and prose sharp enough to bleed.

You do not need to read Garden in Flames first.
Though once you enter Pax Akaedia, it may not let you leave.