Eshari has already watched one home burn. She will do anything to keep the next one standing.

When raiders destroy the village that raised her, five-year-old Eshari survives by hiding and remembering. Every weapon. Every footstep. Every detail that might keep her alive. When the Dark One finds her among the ashes, he offers something she thought she had lost forever: a family.

On Murder Island, keeping that family safe demands more than love.

As the Six Flames build an empire, Eshari learns the language of conquest. She discovers how fear can protect the people she loves, how loyalty can survive terrible cruelty, and how easily the desire to belong can become the need to control.

Beside Yanna, the sister she chooses, Eshari grows from a watchful child into a ruler whose name makes enemies kneel. But power cannot answer every fear.

The gods are calling. Her family has choices of its own. And even a crown cannot promise that the people she loves will stay.

Eshari: Daughter of the Dark Alpha is the third book in Children of the Dark Alpha, set in the Tribal Universe. Told in Eshari's own voice, this dark fantasy follows a survivor's rise through found family, conquest, and the dangerous conviction that enough power can prevent another loss.

Contains intense fantasy violence, blood and gore, cannibalism, and mature themes.