An ember in the ashes : a novel ;
by Sabaa Tahir.
- New York, New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015]
- 446 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Map on lining papers.
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 empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.