Heir

Two decades after the events of the Ember quartet, three young people are pulled toward a common danger. Aiz is a hardened orphan from the slums of Kegari, determined to avenge a people long crushed by a bloodthirsty fleet commander. Sirsha is a tracker with magic in her blood, banished from her homeland, who is hired to hunt a killer that leaves no natural cause of death behind. Quil is the crown prince of the empire and the nephew of a revered empress, dreading the day the throne becomes his. As an unnatural threat spreads and children begin to die, the three find their paths crossing in a story that returns to Tahir's brutal world with familiar faces and new lore.