We Set the Dark on Fire

Dani has trained at a finishing school that prepares girls for highly controlled roles in powerful households. Her own place in that system depends on concealing where she came from, making graduation both an opportunity and a threat. Assigned to a political family, she must navigate a marriage structure designed to serve her husband’s ambitions while a resistance movement draws her toward espionage. Carmen, once a school rival and now part of the same household, complicates Dani’s loyalties further. Their changing relationship becomes inseparable from the risks of secrecy. The first novel in this fantasy duology brings romance into a struggle over class, citizenship and the price of maintaining an unjust order.