De sangre y cenizas

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never belonged to her. The life of the Maiden is lonely. They will never touch it. They will never look at it. They will never speak to him. She will never feel pleasure. As she awaits her Ascension Day, she would rather be with the guards fighting the evil that she took from her family than preparing for the gods to find her worthy enough of her. But her choice has never been his. The future of the entire kingdom rests on Poppy's shoulders, something she's not even too sure she wants for herself. Because the Maiden has a heart. And soul. And desire. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard who has sworn to guarantee her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty intermingle with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden. Abandoned by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom is re-emerging, determined to reclaim what it believes is its own through violence and vengeance. And as the shadow of the damned draws closer, the line between what is forbidden and what is right is blurred. Not only is Poppy about to lose her heart and be deemed unworthy by the gods, but she is also about to lose her life when the bloody threads that hold her world together begin to unravel.