A Heart of Spice and Stars
Sahar Vale · Romantasy · Ember Crown · Book 4
About this book
She has poured tea for half of Zahrat. Now a prince wants her tongue. Yusra runs a tea stall in Zahrat's Spice Souk. She knows everyone's secrets and has never had one of her own, until a bride's wedding cord drops into her hand, an omen says she'll marry by the next spring moon, and she wakes up kindled with the rarest gift in Qaryssa: she can taste what anything truly is. Exiled Prince Zayan has escaped the salt mines with the heart-stone of the Ember Crown, a relic that wakes only on a taster's tongue and can steal every gift in the kingdom. And the spymistress has lodged Kenan of the Black Sands in the room above Yusra's stall: the grave desert rider who once handed his own kindled sister to a monster, and the last man she should trust with what she is. Twelve days until Queen Mira's crowning. One stone that must never wake. And a tea-seller who refuses to be anyone's secret.
Tropes
- Grumpy / sunshine
- Forced proximity