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The Embers of Tamidh
The child is dead. The gambler is gone. What is left of the Hand is winning the war.
The Hand who feels nothing. The gambler whose Luck lies to him. Between them, a rebel city on the edge of burning, and a Darkness patient enough to use them both. When an assassination attempt sends a peace delegation to Tamidh, Farah rides for the one city that holds the man who left her, and the thing that was emptied at Sakasan is ready to be filled.
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Seven months after Sakasan, Farahnaz Rahnema delivers nothing but clean reports. Kashajan knelt in two days. Bandar burned in a week. The council calls it efficiency. The voice in her head, the one that fits itself so seamlessly into her own reasoning, calls it becoming. Farah has stopped noticing which thoughts are hers.
In Tamidh, the rebel city on the Jasseoah coast, Yasher patches walls, hauls water, and loses coin flips he should win. His Luck still speaks to him, but something is speaking over it. He already knows its name.
Then assassins reach the Mashya inside his own rotunda, and the last of them dies with Tamidh on her lips. Six people ride for the rebel city to keep a peace no one believes in. A diplomat who never stops calculating. A dead man the rebellion still remembers. And the Hand of the Mashya, sent to guard the mission, in the one city in the empire that holds the man who left her. The Darkness a child’s sacrifice emptied at Sakasan was never destroyed. It has been patient, and the two people it wants most are about to be inside the same walls.
The Embers of Tamidh is the third book in The Emari Chronicles, a Persian-inspired epic fantasy series of faith, power, and the brutal cost of becoming who you choose to be. For readers of Robin Hobb, N.K. Jemisin, and S.A. Chakraborty.
The Hand who feels nothing. The gambler whose Luck lies to him. Between them, a rebel city on the edge of burning, and a Darkness patient enough to use them both. When an assassination attempt sends a peace delegation to Tamidh, Farah rides for the one city that holds the man who left her, and the thing that was emptied at Sakasan is ready to be filled.
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Seven months after Sakasan, Farahnaz Rahnema delivers nothing but clean reports. Kashajan knelt in two days. Bandar burned in a week. The council calls it efficiency. The voice in her head, the one that fits itself so seamlessly into her own reasoning, calls it becoming. Farah has stopped noticing which thoughts are hers.
In Tamidh, the rebel city on the Jasseoah coast, Yasher patches walls, hauls water, and loses coin flips he should win. His Luck still speaks to him, but something is speaking over it. He already knows its name.
Then assassins reach the Mashya inside his own rotunda, and the last of them dies with Tamidh on her lips. Six people ride for the rebel city to keep a peace no one believes in. A diplomat who never stops calculating. A dead man the rebellion still remembers. And the Hand of the Mashya, sent to guard the mission, in the one city in the empire that holds the man who left her. The Darkness a child’s sacrifice emptied at Sakasan was never destroyed. It has been patient, and the two people it wants most are about to be inside the same walls.
The Embers of Tamidh is the third book in The Emari Chronicles, a Persian-inspired epic fantasy series of faith, power, and the brutal cost of becoming who you choose to be. For readers of Robin Hobb, N.K. Jemisin, and S.A. Chakraborty.
556 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2026
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Beautifully crafted world (so easy to feel the comfort of Shirin and the Saffron Oasis, and the wisdom and experience of Jeta). Characters with depth that pull you into their stories, rooting for some, hoping they'll make better choices, dreading what increasingly distant gods may do with them.
Embers picks up a few months after the heartbreak of Pari (much side eye for the author). We make our way to Tamidh, which is a powder keg waiting ... breath held, putting the book down because of the tension, then picking it right back up again because you have to know. Very much a "just one more chapter" read and will linger with you.
Embers picks up a few months after the heartbreak of Pari (much side eye for the author). We make our way to Tamidh, which is a powder keg waiting ... breath held, putting the book down because of the tension, then picking it right back up again because you have to know. Very much a "just one more chapter" read and will linger with you.
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October 14, 2026Embers is a continuation of the epic fantasy that reveals the story of the fictional nation of Emari through the lens of a highly specialized high-ranking woman in service to the nation's key leader(s). Through this character, Hansford presents adventure, a complex romance plot, and brushes up against themes of individualism, duty, and authenticity to one's self. What does authenticity even mean when you're not sure who you are anymore, or what you stand for?
This book would make for a great for-fun read for fans of high adventure and magic driven plots.
This book would make for a great for-fun read for fans of high adventure and magic driven plots.
October 15, 2026
This is the third installment of the series. Like the previous two, it is beautifully written with very detailed descriptions. The story is full of characters we care about who grow as they struggle through difficult times. I look forward to the next book!
October 13, 2026
This book is fantastic! The world building is so lush and vibrant. I felt like I was pulled right into the page right from the start and I was captivated from beginning to end.
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