The Letters at the Heart of Ashes of the Moonspire

There is a specific ache to loving someone you cannot reach, and book four of the Moonfire Legacy lives inside it.

For much of Ashes of the Moonspire, Aria and Caelan are apart. He is at the border, fighting a war. She is at Moonspire, holding a throne. And the only bridge between them is correspondence, letters carried by tired scouts across dangerous ground, each one a small act of faith that the other is still alive to receive it.

Aria is a queen now, careful with every word, because words from a queen become policy and prophecy. But in a letter to Caelan, she lets the armor slip, and what comes out is the line I think readers will carry with them: "Duty is a poor excuse for dying, but the only one I could ever wear." It is a love letter and a confession and a fear, all folded into a single sentence.

This is fated mates at their most tender and most tested, kept apart by a war neither of them started. Ashes of the Moonspire arrives August 28. Start the series now with Crown of Moonfire, and search Ravan Tempest on Amazon.