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The Inquisition burned the queen. Then they came for everyone else.
Amelia Delarue is a sorceress in hiding, scraping together enough gold to flee the kingdom that wants her dead. She has a partner and a promise to keep. She doesn't need complications. Then the resistance drops the most wanted child in Tourain in her lap. Getting him north is the price of leaving. Taking the job means dodging a vengeful Inquisition captain through enemy-held country, with magic tearing her apart from the inside. Amelia doesn't do heroics. She doesn't do hope. But the boy won't stop talking, and won't stop trusting her. Walking away was supposed to be easy.
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By day, J. Edward Cox keeps aircraft in the air as a flight instructor; by night, he sends his characters through considerably worse. A former commercial pilot and Royal Danish Air Force officer, he traded the cockpit's hard discipline for fiction about pressure, consequence, and people forced into impossible choices, across both fantasy and science fiction. The eye for what can go wrong, and how fast, carried over. He writes from Denmark, where he can be found cooling off in a lake in summer or playing his guitar by the fireplace through the dark winters. The Ashes We Bury is his debut novel, and the first of many.
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