Fire and water were never meant to meet—until fate intervened.
Niara’s dreams of becoming a Water Mage Priestess have been crushed by her magic’s stubborn refusal to cooperate. But when a monstrous creature of lava and flame emerges during a sacred ritual, she discovers she can hear the creature’s thoughts. What’s more, the fearsome beast is not a beast at all, but the cursed Prince Keeran of the Ember Fae.
After uncovering a treacherous plot that threatens both Keeran and the future of the Water Mages, Niara faces an impossible choice: remain loyal to the Mages who raised her or assist the son of her people’s enemy—a man whose touch awakens something wild and forbidden within her blood.
Niara and Keeran must race against time to save both their peoples and break his curse—that is if the army hunting them, her own conflicted loyalties, and the explosive chemistry between these mortal enemies don’t destroy them first.
