The Fire that Eats the King

When Ashfall burns, Alessio loses his father—and finds a royal letter that reveals the fire was no accident. The message speaks of an ancient barrier, a desperate sacrifice, and a secret the Crown will kill to protect.

With the town destroyed and Lord Dominick determined to erase the evidence, Alessio follows the Crowns soldiers toward the heart of Verath. Along the way, he joins forces with people who have their own reasons to distrust the throne: a builder who sees patterns in the kingdoms foundations, a grieving father guarding a dangerous truth, and a scholar who has spent his life collecting forbidden fragments of history.

Together they uncover a conspiracy buried beneath the kingdom—a system that has kept the world safe for centuries by feeding lives to the darkness beyond the barrier. Now the old order is failing, and the Crown intends to pay the price with someone elses blood.

To save Ashfall and everyone beyond it, Alessio must choose what kind of man he will become: a subject who accepts the Crowns story, or the guardian who tears it down. The Fire That Eats Kings is an epic dark-fantasy novel about grief, political conspiracy, sacrifice, and the cost of protecting a kingdom built on lies.