Forging Ash of the Beloved

Book one overview

Austra Lavista was raised to be invisible.

Born among the wind-carved spires of Zephyra, she was shaped from childhood by isolation, discipline, and her mother’s relentless ambition, trained to obey, infiltrate, and destroy without question. When Zephyra moves to destabilize the Greater Pyronous Rebellion, Austra is sent into the volcanic city of Pyronous with a single directive: earn the rebels’ trust, sabotage when necessary, and report everything.

What she finds instead is purpose, camaraderie, and a battalion that feels dangerously like home.

As Austra survives the rebellion’s trials and rises through its ranks, she forms deep bonds with the rebels who become the Crosswinds, and falls into a quiet, devastating love with Daria Cross, the rebellion’s rising commander and the very woman Austra was sent to help destroy. Lies pile atop lies as loyalty fractures and guilt grows unbearable. When war looms, and Austra’s final orders arrive, she is forced to choose between the role she was shaped for and the truth she can no longer deny.

Air and Ash and All We Lost is a mythic, Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy novel about Sapphic love forged under impossible pressure, found family, espionage, betrayal, the devastation of inherited roles, and what survives when both circumstance and choice bring everything to ruin.