Chaseten Bartels’s Reviews > An Ember in the Ashes > Status Update

The two main characters (Laia&Elias) & their friends & families. As of right now, they are on opposite sides of an empire & a resistance, but Elias is thinking of defecting. Before he could defect, he was selected to take the trials to possibly become the next emperor. Laia is having a hard time after here grand parents are killed & her brother is arrested. She looks for the resistance to possibly rescue her brother.