{"product_id":"a-throne-of-ash-and-echo-blythe-9798251972337","title":"A Throne of Ash and Embers","description":"\u003cb\u003eShe was the Guild's most lethal weapon. He was her target. The blade was supposed to end him. Instead, it started everything.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSevra Ashborne has been an assassin since she was six years old. Raised in the Guild's Forge, stripped of everything except the kill, she has never failed a mission. When she is sent to murder the Dragon King of Ashenmere - the last of the Emberthorn dynasty, the sole operator of a continental defense system that keeps the world from tearing itself apart - she expects it to be her finest work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne cut. That's all it takes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the bone dagger draws the wrong blood - or the right blood, depending on who's asking. When her blade catches Orion Vale's jaw instead of his throat, their blood mixes on ancient stone. The Twin Binding awakens. And the most dangerous woman on the continent discovers that she now shares a heartbeat, a pain threshold, and a ten-step kill radius with the man she was sent to destroy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf he dies, she dies. If she bleeds, he bleeds. And the bond is tightening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrion Vale has been burning alone for sixteen years.\u003c\/b\u003e The dragonblood that powers the continental defense system is consuming his mind, one eruption at a time. The Emberthorn dynasty has been dying for ten thousand years - one conduit per generation, each one burning brighter and shorter than the last. He has no heir. No partner. No one who can share the weight that is slowly, inevitably, killing him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil an assassin's blade gives him the one thing the system was designed for and the dynasty could never produce: a second conduit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is not Emberthorn. She should not be compatible. The bond should not exist. And yet the ancient engineers' ten-thousand-year-old system recognizes her - not as a weapon, but as the missing piece it has been waiting for. \u003cb\u003eNow Sevra must choose.\u003c\/b\u003e The Guild that raised her wants her to complete the mission - and they're holding her thirteen-year-old brother as leverage. The bond that chains her to the Dragon King is evolving, demanding trust she was trained never to give. And the continental defense system, running at a fraction of its designed capacity, is failing - producing the earthquakes and ward failures and preventable deaths that have been the Emberthorn monopoly's hidden cost for a hundred centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe blade was supposed to kill the dragon.\u003cbr\u003eThe dragon is offering the blade a throne.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the choice between them will determine whether the continent stands or falls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA THRONE OF ASH AND EMBERS\u003c\/b\u003e is the first book in \u003cb\u003eThe Dragonblood Binding\u003c\/b\u003e, a complete enemies-to-lovers romantasy trilogy featuring a morally grey assassin heroine, a dragon king who burns alone, a bond that shares every heartbeat, and a magic system where consent isn't just romantic - it's physics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTropes: \u003c\/b\u003e Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity. Touch her and die. Morally grey heroine. Protective hero. She falls first. Found family. Slow burn with a devastating payoff. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeat level: \u003c\/b\u003e 4\/5 - Doors open. The bond shares everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Echo Blythe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798251972337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.35d","brand":"Echo Blythe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665385427199,"sku":"9798251972337","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-throne-of-ash-and-echo-blythe-9798251972337","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}