Heir
A military fantasy following a hero's continuation into a world torn by resistance and rebellion. Duty and personal desire collide as old enemies resurface and new threats emerge. Victory requires sacrificing everything she believed she was.
Everything You Need to Know About Heir
Twenty years after the events of the Ember quartet, the Empire is at peace, at least on paper. Heir rotates through three leads. Quil is the crown prince, nephew of Empress Helene Aquilla and son of the most hated emperor in the Empire's history, and he wants nothing to do with the throne. Sirsha is an exiled tracker who speaks to earth, air, and water, hired to hunt a killer who has been murdering children across the Empire. Aiz grew up in the slums of Kegar, driven by love of her people and an old tragedy, until one hot-headed mistake lands her in an inescapable prison.
Their stories collide as war descends on the Empire and the killer's trail leads somewhere nobody wants to follow. Tahir's trademarks are all here: brutal stakes, grief taken seriously, and romance that costs something.
Violence and war, murders of children (investigated, not gratuitous), imprisonment, grief and loss, oppression and poverty.
Ember quartet readers get the payoff of seeing this world a generation later. New readers get a fresh entry point with its own cast. For fans of character-driven epic fantasy where war has real costs, closer to Tahir's earlier work than to lighter romantasy.
Book one of the Heir duology, a spinoff set 20 years after An Ember in the Ashes. The sequel, Empire, concludes the duology and is due in fall 2026. You don't strictly need the quartet first, but returning characters land harder if you've read it.
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