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Zusatztext 70559572 Informationen zum Autor SABAA TAHIR is a former newspaper editor who grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, listening to thunderous indie rock, and playing guitar and piano badly. Her #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series has been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and the first book in the series was named one of TIME ’s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Tahir’s most recent novel, All My Rage , won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry, and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Visit Sabaa online at SabaaTahir.com and follow her on Instagram @SabaaTahir and TikTok @SabaaTahirAuthor. Klappentext THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Book two in the New York Times bestselling series A USA Today bestseller A Wall Street Journal bestseller "Spectacular."-Entertainment Weekly "Fresh and exciting...Tahir has shown a remarkable talent for penning complex villains."-A.V. Club "Even higher stakes than its predecessor… thrilling." -Publishers Weekly! starred review "[An] action-packed! breathlessly paced story." -Booklist! starred review Set in a rich! high-fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome! Sabaa Tahir's AN EMBER IN THE ASHES told the story of Laia! a slave fighting for her family! and Elias! a young soldier fighting for his freedom. Now! in A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT! Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial! Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf-the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison-to save her brother! who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed! even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces! human and otherworldly! work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus! the merciless Commandant! the sadistic Warden of Kauf! and! most heartbreaking of all! Helene-Elias's former friend and the Empire's newest Blood Shrike. Bound to Marcus's will! Helene faces a torturous mission of her own-one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape...and kill them both. Leseprobe I: Laia How did they find us so fast? Behind me, the catacombs echo with angry shouts and the screech of metal. My eyes dart to the grinning skulls lining the walls. I think I hear the voices of the dead. Be swift, be fleet, they seem to hiss . Unless you wish to join our ranks. “Faster, Laia,” my guide says. His armor flashes as he hastens ahead of me through the catacombs. “We’ll lose them if we’re quick. I know an escape tunnel that leads out of the city. Once we’re there, we’re safe.” We hear a scrape behind us, and my guide’s pale eyes flick past my shoulder. His hand is a gold-brown blur as it flies to the hilt of a scim slung across his back. A simple movement full of menace. A reminder that he is not just my guide. He is Elias Veturius, heir to one of the Empire’s finest families. He is a former Mask—an elite soldier of the Martial Empire. And he is my ally—the only person who can help me save my brother, Darin, from a notorious Martial prison. In one step, Elias is beside me. In another, he is in front, moving with unnatural grace for someone so big. Together, we peer down the tunnel we just passed through. My pulse thuds in my ears. Any elation I fel...
