The Flame Begins: Wicked Ink Signs Edy Graziani’s YA Fantasy Trilogy, Book One – The Last Ember
Wicked Ink Publishing is proud to announce the signing of acclaimed young adult author Edy (E.) Graziani, whose award-winning storytelling and evocative imagination have inspired readers around the world. Known for her mastery of emotional depth and immersive world-building, Edy’s work bridges the boundaries of genre, blending fantasy, contemporary, and historical fiction with timeless human truths. Her celebrated time-travel duology, Alice of the Rocks and Angel of Time, captured both critical and popular acclaim, with Alice of the Rocks named one of Barnes & Noble’s Top Ten Young Adult Summer Reads (2023) and Angel of Time recognized among CCBC’s Best Books for Kids and Teens (Spring 2024). Her diverse body of work also includes Breaking Faith, featured on CBC Canada’s Must-Read Books for Spring 2017 and honored on the In the Margins Book Award Recommended Fiction List, as well as Magenta, Everything That Was Us, and War in My Town, a YA historical memoir and finalist for the Hamilton Arts Council 2016 Literary Awards for Best Non-Fiction.
Now, Edy steps boldly into a new era of her storytelling with The Last Ember, the first installment in her epic Of Fire and Sky trilogy, a sweeping YA fantasy romantasy that ignites with forbidden love, elemental power, and rebellion against tyranny. At once intimate and vast in scope, The Last Ember unfolds in a shattered kingdom teetering between ruin and revolution. Here, ancient prophecies stir in the ashes of fallen houses, the gods’ whispers ride the wind, and the fires of destiny refuse to die.
The story follows Lila, the last surviving heir of the fallen House of Ember, whose blood carries both a curse and a promise. Her family slaughtered, her name erased, her sigil burned into her skin. Lila should have been ash, yet she endures. Living by her blade and instincts, she’s spent years hiding in the cracks of a realm ruled by cruelty, waiting for her chance to strike back. But fate, both cruel and kind, intervenes when she crosses paths with Kellan, a disciplined soldier bound to the House of Zephyros, and the very Commission responsible for her family’s destruction. Bound by loyalty yet burdened by secrets of his own, Kellan becomes both Lila’s greatest threat and her unexpected salvation.
As rebellion brews in the shadows and prophecy begins to stir, Lila and Kellan are thrust into a dangerous alliance that will test every belief they’ve held. Together, they must navigate a world of ancient magics, celestial storms, and fractured loyalties, where every spark of truth carries the risk of annihilation. What begins as vengeance kindles into something neither expected.
Rich with lush imagery, heart-stopping romance, and the timeless allure of destiny, The Last Ember is a story of courage and transformation, a journey through loss, fury, and the fragile beauty of hope. It’s a tale where the line between love and ruin blurs, where even the smallest flame can ignite a revolution, and where every ember must choose what it burns for: vengeance, justice, or love.
With Of Fire and Sky, Edy Graziani brings readers an unforgettable world where storm meets shadow, power meets passion, and one girl’s fire could change the fate of kingdoms.
The fire is rising, and a new legend is about to be forged in flame.
The Last Ember, Book One of the Of Fire and Sky trilogy, coming soon from Wicked Ink Publishing.
They thought the fire was gone forever. They were wrong.
Lila should have been ash. The last surviving heir of the fallen House of Ember, her family slaughtered, her name erased, her sigil burned into her skin. For years, she’s lived by her blade and her instincts, hiding in the cracks of a fractured kingdom, waiting for the chance to strike back against those who destroyed everything she once loved.
When fate throws her into the path of Kellan, a soldier bound to the House of Zephyros, and the very Commission that annihilated her bloodline, Lila’s quest for vengeance becomes far more complicated. Kellan is everything she’s been taught to despise: disciplined, cold, loyal to the regime. Yet behind his armour lies a secret of his own.
As the two are thrust together by circumstance and hunted by forces they barely understand, they uncover a conspiracy buried deep within the kingdom that threatens to consume Eastern Nianna. At its heart lies a prophecy: of a power strong enough to either save the realm or reduce it to cinders.
That power burns in Lila’s blood.
With enemies closing in and rebellion simmering in the shadows, Lila must decide if she will become the weapon fate forged her to be or the spark that forges something entirely new. But every ember must choose what it burns for: vengeance, justice…or love.
In a realm where storm meets shadow and loyalty is as dangerous as fire, one girl’s fury could set the skies ablaze.
The Last Ember begins Of Fire and Sky, a sweeping YA fantasy trilogy of forbidden love, ancient power, and the fight to reclaim a world on the brink of tyranny.
