{"product_id":"emberwake-andrew-wishstone-9798197369598","title":"Emberwake: Ashbound Chronicles Book Two: A Dark Fantasy of Memory, Fire, and Forgotten Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA city built on stolen suffering. A man built to open the door.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKael Virek is a fragment - a piece of something centuries old, carrying a purpose that was never explained to him and a power that costs him memories every time he uses it. The trail left by the First Cindered leads east, toward Thalenmir: the City of a Thousand Lanterns, where Ashcraft is outlawed, the streets empty after dark, and something ancient pulses beneath the foundations like a second heartbeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath Thalenmir, sealed in a vault built from compressed memory and stolen ritual, nine gods have been imprisoned for four hundred years. The city has been running on their suffering like a machine runs on fuel. Nobody who lives there knows. The man who governs them has known for years and has been finding ways to consume more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the First Cindered is walking toward the vault. A secret cult is trying to harvest it. And Kael - marked at the frequency of the vault's seventh seal, carrying the piece the First lost - is the only key that opens the door correctly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmberwake\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark fantasy of buried gods, institutional corruption, and what it costs to restore something that should never have been taken. Featuring a fully realised city setting, multiple sword-and-Ashcraft fight sequences, and a mystery that reframes everything that happened in Book One - this is the Ashbound Chronicles at full power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lanterns of Thalenmir are going out. Something is waking beneath them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Wishstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197369598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d","brand":"Andrew Wishstone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173357232383,"sku":"9798197369598","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/emberwake-andrew-wishstone-9798197369598","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}