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.
"Thala!" Glinda said in admonishment. "Get back to your senses. I know you are hurt and so are we, but you can't be like this."
"Yes, Thala, please don't talk like this." Maria could not stop her tears as well. "I am not saying your hatred is wrong, or that destiny has been fair to us, but you must live on. The pain you feel, which of us has not felt that before? You forget that when the City of Lvenor was lost, when our sisters betrayed us and sided with the humans, we too were forced to kill the people we once trusted. How many of us who survived did not have blood in our hands? Did we not question whether we were in the right? Whether their intentions for betraying were justified?