THE AGE OF ASH AND MOON

Book I: The First Flame

In a world divided into thirteen kingdoms, peace is nothing more than a memory buried beneath ash and blood.

The West rules through crowns and conquest - a realm of marble cities, golden politics, and a king who once chose power over love. King Aldric Aurelian has spent decades building an empire that bends kingdoms to his will... but the past he buried is beginning to breathe again.

Far beyond the walls of the West, the East survives in shadow and instinct - where forests swallow kingdoms whole and the moon decides who is worthy to lead. There, Kael Draven, the feared Lycan King, rules not with mercy or politics, but with instinct, loyalty, and the silent threat of something far more ancient than man.

And in the forgotten South, where old African kingdoms once stood before betrayal and collapse, a secret survives in exile - a bloodline the world believed was erased. A girl raised on a quiet farm. A girl who does not yet know her name carries the weight of empires.

Zariah Aurelian has never belonged anywhere.

Until the sky burns.

When the ancient dragon Aziraa breaks centuries of silence and chooses a human rider, the world fractures. Dragons, once reduced to myth, begin to stir again - and every kingdom remembers why they feared fire in the first place.

Taken from her life and thrust into a war she never asked for, Zariah becomes the center of an ancient prophecy - one that ties dragons, wolves, and thrones together in a fate no kingdom can escape.