It's become tradition for me to write a "What's 'x' about?" post for every new book I publish, but it's only now striking me that this is the last one I will ever do for a From the Ashes of Victory book. I'll try to make it a good one!

For five books (eleven years to the characters), Victoria, Millie and Katya have been working towards one goal: a future that is better than their pasts. For everyone. But on the heels of the events of The Raven and the Firebird, with EVE rattled and discombobulated, that goal feels farther away than ever.

Pax Victoria picks up right where Raven left off, with hard questions to be answered and the path forward unclear. Hope and fear walk hand-in-hand, the winds of both blowing across the EVE campus in equal strength. Questions of love, legacy and responsibility abound--for no one more than Victoria.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? How does love change you? How do we change others and the world around us?

For a story that started on a quiet Christmas morning in an exhausted world with one young woman unable to confess her feelings and another with no memory of who she was, the scope and scale has never been bigger than at the end.

"Your choices are your immortality, Raven of the wood."

I hope you will join the Raven, the Firebird, the Red Knight and the Angel one more time to find out just what those choices are.

This series has been a true labor of love, and I am more excited than I can express to share its conclusion with you. Whether you've been here since the beginning or last week, it's time to find out once and for all what rises from the ashes of victory.