The tale of a man who brings death and a girl who denies it. ---- On the haunted mountain in the kingdom, they say there lived a witch. She was born a princess. But even before her birth, the priest declared her to be cursed and demanded her death. They poisoned the mother to kill the baby before she gave birth, but the baby was born out of the dead mother—a cursed child. Again and again, they tried to kill the baby but she miraculously survived every single attempt. Giving up, they abandoned her on the haunted mountain to die but she still survived on that barren land— A witch ‘Why won’t she die?’ Years later, the people finally had enough of the witch and decided to burn the mountain. But the Devil arrived to her rescue and took her with him from that burning place, because dying was not her destiny even then. Draven Amaris. The Black Dragon, who ruled over supernatural beings, the Devil who no one wished to cross a path with. He hated humans but this certain human girl would pull him towards her whenever she was in danger. ‘Is she really a human?’ He took the human with him and named this mysteriously tenacious girl “Ember”, a piece of glowing coal in a dying fire. A soul tainted with vengeance and the darkness of hell, would rise from the ashes and fulfil her revenge. ------ This is the second book from the series of The Devils and Witches. 1st book - Witch's daughter and the Devil's son. 3rd book- The Devil's Betrothed. All books are connected to each other but you can read them as stand-alone.
The King's Palace, Council Hall
Upon confirming the possibility of Morpheus' survival, a council meeting had been arranged the very next day, not only to discuss the incident during the day of mourning but also the matters of imposing punishment to those involved.
Not only were the members of the council present to attend the council meeting, even a handful of the high-ranking elders of their clans also came, insisting to involve themselves in today's proceedings.
White Tiger Logan was with Draven in his study before the council meeting.
Logan was merely the son of the Leader of the White Tiger Clan, and though he was the Vice Commander of Warriors and the current Acting Commander, his role involved fieldwork, merely receiving instructions from Draven's aides or the Chief of the Shapeshifters on normal days. As the person in charge of the investigation of Morpheus' murder, Logan's presence in the meeting was necessary.