In the scorched city of Velgar, an aging flame-watcher guards the southern gate in silence, haunted by a fire he started twenty years ago, and a girl no one remembers. But Emberath’s flame remembers everything. And when a figure made of ash begins appearing night after night, Daren must choose: confess the truth he buried… or be consumed by it.

A story of guilt, grief, and the kind of magic that never forgets.