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.
Evanthe, along with Sierra, appeared at the witch clan, at the residence of the head of the witches, Cornelia Grim.
Talia guided them inside the residence and brought them to Cornelia's room where she was resting, seemingly unconscious as she had exhausted a major part of her energy to review Morpheus' soul. Evanthe sat at the edge of the bed and held Cornelia's wrist to check her condition.
"She looks weak; it might take days for her body to recover," Sierra said as she simply observed Cornelia's appearance.
Evanthe let go of Cornelia's wrist and nodded in agreement with Sierra. She then passed her divine power to Cornelia to aid in her healing and turned to Silvia and Cornelia, "Make sure to give her vitality potions frequently for a few days and let me know once she is awake."
"Yes, Your Eminence."
Evanthe stood up and informed them, "I am heading to the Spirit Circle."