Ashes of a Black Frost: Book 3 of the Iron Elves

Evans ably continues the saga of the determined and driven Iron Elves and their valiant leader, Maj. Konowa Swift Dragon, in this gritty follow-up to 2009’s The Light of Burning Shadows. Konowa has just witnessed the battle to end all battles. He’s in charge of a shredded company held together with camel spit and tattered pride. Private Alywn Renwar has taken on the burden of being the living mouthpiece to the fallen Iron Elves, and it’s tearing away at his sanity. Konowa just wants to find a way to end the war and finish off the Shadow Monarch once and for all—but soon he will learn that the Monarch is not the true face of evil. An overly sappy romance distracts only slightly from the heroic action that keeps Evans’s fans coming back. (Oct.)