When Wolves Burn: Book Nine

by C.G. Jaquish

The Siren changed the world. Her new order swept Asylum and brought women to heights they hadn’t seen since Artessa. The Ancient backed her every move, her cult spreading with each passing year. Mystics, sangis, humans, everyone lived in harmony under Astrid’s reign. Everyone who set aside their Free Will to embrace Callings. Everyone who mattered. Crime all but disappeared, and peace settled across the planet like never before. Those with the nerve to resist her utopia didn’t have the power. Order. Harmony. Peace.

Light. Blinding and inescapable.

Nearly two thousand years of perfection now teeters on the brink. One wolf. His shadow illuminates the cracks in her armor, the rot within the light. A threat to all she has built and all her beloved country of Mendacia stands for. Every blow she strikes in the daylight, he rises with the moons to counter, cloaked in fiery destiny. A destiny that will shatter her world and save those drowning in it.

A destiny that binds two souls across the ages.

915 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2025

Reviews

[Lucas W Mayberry · Rating 5 out of 5]

C.G. Jaquish is back to her epic best. Several centuries have passed. Astrid has grown into a despicable dictator with the equally despicable Necromancer, Axl, by her side and Eclipse has once again disappeared. The world is a bleak place especially for men who are now seen as inferior and are enslaved and abused by women. But then steps up young wolven Druhid, Vihk who if you have read the previous books is destined to become the great Rhys, Eclipse’s soulmate. Tired of the current status quo, Vihk sets out to rescue his fellow druhids from captivity which has disastrous consequences as Astrid tries to assert her dominance. However this brings Eclipse back in a rather explosive showdown between Druhids, Dryads and Dragons. This in turn encourages Vihk to carry on his revolution to rescue his kind but as he gathers his allies he soon becomes the reluctant leader of a new country where Druhids, Dryads, Giants and other races can live in peace. But this peace comes with a devastating cost that will lead to a rather shocking and grim showdown for Vihk and his friends. As with the previous books in the series this book is epic in both size and scope. The world building is brilliant and the battle scenes are off the chart. There are many twists and turns as answers to questions raised in the previous books are finally answered but new ones are raised too and will keep you invested and entertained as you breeze through this book. I am now impatiently waiting for book 10. For transparency sake I got this as a free ARC.