An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)

by Sabaa Tahir

“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.”

“All evil here,” she whispers. “Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones.”

We are, all of us, trapped in a pocket of unending violence.