A Torch Against the Night

By Sabaa Tahir

Book #2 in the An Ember in the Ashes series

Fugitives Elias and Laia race against dark forces to save her brother from a deadly prison.

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464 pages· 124,808 words· Est. 11.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Elias and Laia are on the run, pursued by Martial soldiers through the Empire. Laia's mission: infiltrate the impenetrable Kauf prison to rescue her brother, vital to the Scholars' survival. Elias, sacrificing his freedom, aids her against formidable foes, including his former friend Helene, now tasked with hunting them down. As dark forces close in, can they outsmart their enemies and survive?

From the publisher

Book two in the New York Times bestselling series - One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time - A USA Today bestseller “Fresh and exciting…Tahir has shown a remarkable talent for penning complex villains.”–A.V. Club The beloved and bestselling fantasy series that “glows, burns, and smolders.” (Huffington Post). Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf–the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison–to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene–Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike. Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own–one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and kill them both.

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