Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos #0.5)

A stunning standalone legend to the New York Times bestselling fantasy series by Samantha Shannon, bridging the events of A Day of Fallen Night and The Priory of the Orange Tree.

Marosa Vetalda, crown princess of Yscalin, longs for independence under the rule of her cold and high-handed father, King Sigoso. She looks forward to her marriage as a chance to remake her life.

Before Marosa can escape her father’s rule, though, she is forced to confront the king’s darkest and most dangerous secret: There are Draconic creatures beginning to stir in the mountains around the capital. When an earthquake racks the city, and the wyrm Fýredel awakens for the first time since the Grief of Ages, the capital falls to a flock of wyverns. Fýredel makes a puppet of King Sigoso.

Under the threat of death, Marosa swears allegiance to Fýredel, but even as a prisoner in her own home, she will not abandon her country to the Draconic Army. Turning to stealth and seeking new allies, Marosa sets out to change her own fate—and her nations’.

Among the Burning Flowers is a gorgeously written, beautifully illustrated, single-sitting read in Samantha Shannon’s New York Times bestselling “epic feminist fantasy” (Bustle) Roots of Chaos series.