An Ember in the AshesAn Ember in the Ashes

"LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empires greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
ELIAS is the academys finest soldierand secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, hes ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.
When Laia and Eliass paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself.