"Shauna E. Black’s new serialized fantasy ... has something in it I haven’t felt since Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series. It has a voice that is both moving and haunting, capturing the soul and filling it with magic. I want more … much, much more." —Mikey Brooks, Award-winning author of The Dream Keeper Chronicles and The Stone of Valhalla Episode 2 When King Ghalad goes missing, Talorc threatens to take over Eagle Canyon. Alswyn must use forbidden magic to rescue Ghalad from the Plains of Dera. But the rescue mission gets complicated when she runs afoul of her former lover, Cynet, and the goddess Dera. They’ll both do anything to ensnare Alswyn once more in ash magic. Soul in Ashes Serialized Novel In this series of fantasy novellas, Alswyn is a young adult in exile studying the healing arts in a foreign land when she discovers ash magic that could destroy a delicate peace treaty and plunge the countryside back into war. Now she must reveal the truth of her sordid past, risking her new life as she uses forbidden knowledge to counter the ash magic and catch the sorcerer before her adopted homeland is destroyed.