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  Fowler lowered his head and kissed me, slow and lingering. “Would that day happen to be our wedding day, Your Majesty?”

  “It would.” I smiled against his lips, relishing his mouth on mine, his gaze warm and tender on my face.

  This must be what sunlight felt like.

  The light had not yet returned to the world, but someday it would. Until then, this was the closest I could get, and it was enough.

  As far as I was concerned, the darkness had passed. And I lived in light.

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  SOPHIE JORDAN grew up on a pecan farm in the Texas hill country, where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she’s also the New York Times bestselling author of Avon historical romances and the Firelight series. She now lives in Houston with her family. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes and Diet cherry Coke preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-TV shows. You can visit her online at www.sophiejordan.net.

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  BOOKS BY SOPHIE JORDAN

  Uninvited

  Unleashed

  The Firelight Series

  Firelight

  Vanish

  Hidden

  Breathless

  Reign of Shadows

  Rise of Fire

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  Cover photography © 2017 by Christine Blackburne/Merge Left Reps

  Cover design and styling by Michelle Taormina

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  RISE OF FIRE. Copyright © 2017 by Sharie Kohler. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949941

  ISBN 978-0-06-237767-8

  EPub Edition © January 2017 ISBN 9780062377692

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