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Ashborne Phoenix: A Dragon Romantasy Novel
The final volume of the Emberquell Order trilogy is a slow-burn, mythical creatures romantic fantasy, set in the magical world of the Emberquell Academy duets. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing and Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, Ashborne is an enemies-to-lovers fantasy that follows one man into the shadows he fled—to save the only heart he’s ever let himself love.
His demons have risen—and he'll slay them with the weapons they handed him.
Voski spent his life learning to thrive without attachment. Using power as a weapon, and taking whatever he chose. But his dragon changed him. Saved him. Healed him. He swore he’d never embrace the shadow again.
But now, the one person he can’t live without is slipping from his grasp. Torn away by the very people he fled.
Saving her means being the blade they hold to her throat. Becoming the enemy. If he doesn’t, Grace will be exploited, and ultimately destroyed.
But if he does, he risks being consumed by the same darkness he’s been fighting all along.
The latest chapter in Aimee Lynn's Flameborne world, Ashborne PHOENIX proves that the hardest bond to survive isn't the one a man shares with his dragon—it's the one that forces him to admit he has something to lose.
Tropes &
Dark Romantasy with spice · Dragon Riders · Enemies to Lovers · Grumpy-Sunshine · Touch her and die / Protective MMC · Forced Proximity · Fated Mates / Rejected Bond · Found Family · Magic · Strong FMC · Slow Burn to High Spice · Political Intrigue, and much, much more!
*****
Genre and Series The Ashborne trilogy is a standalone series set in the same world as the Flameborne and Shadowborne duets. If you're looking for a new dragon romance with a strong female lead, a dark hero, and love's promise of emotional and spiritual healing, this series is for you. (Author Book 1 is a slow burn, however the series includes open door love scenes, along with coarse language, violence, and themes and depictions of manipulation and religious trauma.)
These romantasy book for adults / romantasy with spice, romantic dragon books are brimming with enemies to lovers tension, forced proximity, dark magic, fated mates, rejected bond, class conflicts, political intrigue, and the trauma-healing character and plot developments that keep readers coming back to Lynn's books.
His demons have risen—and he'll slay them with the weapons they handed him.
Voski spent his life learning to thrive without attachment. Using power as a weapon, and taking whatever he chose. But his dragon changed him. Saved him. Healed him. He swore he’d never embrace the shadow again.
But now, the one person he can’t live without is slipping from his grasp. Torn away by the very people he fled.
Saving her means being the blade they hold to her throat. Becoming the enemy. If he doesn’t, Grace will be exploited, and ultimately destroyed.
But if he does, he risks being consumed by the same darkness he’s been fighting all along.
The latest chapter in Aimee Lynn's Flameborne world, Ashborne PHOENIX proves that the hardest bond to survive isn't the one a man shares with his dragon—it's the one that forces him to admit he has something to lose.
Tropes &
Dark Romantasy with spice · Dragon Riders · Enemies to Lovers · Grumpy-Sunshine · Touch her and die / Protective MMC · Forced Proximity · Fated Mates / Rejected Bond · Found Family · Magic · Strong FMC · Slow Burn to High Spice · Political Intrigue, and much, much more!
*****
Genre and Series The Ashborne trilogy is a standalone series set in the same world as the Flameborne and Shadowborne duets. If you're looking for a new dragon romance with a strong female lead, a dark hero, and love's promise of emotional and spiritual healing, this series is for you. (Author Book 1 is a slow burn, however the series includes open door love scenes, along with coarse language, violence, and themes and depictions of manipulation and religious trauma.)
These romantasy book for adults / romantasy with spice, romantic dragon books are brimming with enemies to lovers tension, forced proximity, dark magic, fated mates, rejected bond, class conflicts, political intrigue, and the trauma-healing character and plot developments that keep readers coming back to Lynn's books.
- GenresRomantasy
482 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2026
About the author
Aimee Lynn
27 books252 followersAimee Lynn was born in Oregon and grew up in New Zealand. She dreamed of being a novelist from the age of seven, but as a Gen-Xer, was informed it wasn’t a realistic career. Instead, she went to college to be a journalist and (very realistically) never completed her degree. It wasn’t until her mid-thirties, after a marriage, a corporate career, and a family, that she rediscovered the joy she’d found in writing fiction. Now, she thanks God for giving her a husband whose love inspires romance, and who isn’t threatened by Jason Momoa.
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November 2, 2026
Contains Spoilers
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I loved Voski’s character arc over the series, he had a lot of growth as a person and was written very well. Grace’s experience in this one hit home for me. I also experienced the loss of pregnancy so the emotions, thoughts and feelings she experienced were very relatable and well written. I look forward to the next installment in this world and the next brother we get to follow.
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I loved Voski’s character arc over the series, he had a lot of growth as a person and was written very well. Grace’s experience in this one hit home for me. I also experienced the loss of pregnancy so the emotions, thoughts and feelings she experienced were very relatable and well written. I look forward to the next installment in this world and the next brother we get to follow.
October 27, 2026
Heed the warning
This was a very difficult read at times. Sometimes I had to put it away. I've not had the issues that some have had and I still had to put it away for awhile. I nearly stopped reading. But this is a well written hard hitting story. If you decide to read it, just be prepared to put it away if you need to.
This was a very difficult read at times. Sometimes I had to put it away. I've not had the issues that some have had and I still had to put it away for awhile. I nearly stopped reading. But this is a well written hard hitting story. If you decide to read it, just be prepared to put it away if you need to.
October 23, 2026
Aimee Lynn has a way of writing such depth and intensity in her characters, I can’t help but get totally pulled in. Her stories do contain trigger warnings to read because she writes about real struggles in a raw and real way.
Voski and Grace are introduced to us at the end of the Emberquell Academy series (Bren and Donavyn). We know Grace is a noble and we know Voski is dark, stealthy, guarded and broody. We don’t know why yet.
This trilogy dives really deep into the areas of control, being a fixer, letting trauma define you when you don’t seek healing, and trust. We also see both Voski and Grace use masks in different settings and with certain people and at times with eachother.
Voski struggles with his mate bond with Grace because his past is so dark. Because of that darkness his self worth is measured in his Furyknight capabilities. His identity is his tasks and work. Grace is a woman in a man’s world. She’s seen as a possession, and way to conceive and heir, and not to be taken seriously. She is often seen as silly or an inconvenience. So she learns how to adapt herself.
They go through some DARK stuff together and it was so hard not to scream at Voski, knowing he was not doing the right thing!
I do love the way Aimee writes the dragons and talks of the Creator. I don’t know if her intention is for the dragons to mirror Christ, but it reads that way to me.
The dragons know their riders inside and out and what they need. There’s a bind specific to only them and gifts made only between them.
I cried to many tears and I think felt just about all the emotions ha!
If she writes it, I want to read it!
Voski and Grace are introduced to us at the end of the Emberquell Academy series (Bren and Donavyn). We know Grace is a noble and we know Voski is dark, stealthy, guarded and broody. We don’t know why yet.
This trilogy dives really deep into the areas of control, being a fixer, letting trauma define you when you don’t seek healing, and trust. We also see both Voski and Grace use masks in different settings and with certain people and at times with eachother.
Voski struggles with his mate bond with Grace because his past is so dark. Because of that darkness his self worth is measured in his Furyknight capabilities. His identity is his tasks and work. Grace is a woman in a man’s world. She’s seen as a possession, and way to conceive and heir, and not to be taken seriously. She is often seen as silly or an inconvenience. So she learns how to adapt herself.
They go through some DARK stuff together and it was so hard not to scream at Voski, knowing he was not doing the right thing!
I do love the way Aimee writes the dragons and talks of the Creator. I don’t know if her intention is for the dragons to mirror Christ, but it reads that way to me.
The dragons know their riders inside and out and what they need. There’s a bind specific to only them and gifts made only between them.
I cried to many tears and I think felt just about all the emotions ha!
If she writes it, I want to read it!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 27, 2026
The conclusion is just out of this world! Ashborne Phoenix was everything I had hoped for and more. @aimeelynn.author , you outdo yourself once again. This concluding the series by taking you through twists and turns, wrenching your heart only to heal it all in the end. The ability to incorporate an eternal powerful being with the fantasy realm and then dark magic, chef's kiss. Voski was a favorite of mine just learning he was a squad brother but he definitely needed his own story. The story of finding redemption within yourself even after falling completely off course. I love the flaws that both main characters can have and yet they find within themselves, their dragons and each other that they can overcome even the darkest of nights. And there are sneaky ones that I need more of that hopefully will become a spin off to the next series. This squad is definitely one that delivers again and again. Thank you for sharing this incredible story with the world Aimee, I cannot wait to see where we go from here!
October 30, 2026
love love love this series
🌟10⭐️ Don’t care sue me
I love these series they are so effortless so exciting they get better with every book
The world building the character development, the hot squad (insert squeal)🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I need more
This story was so good so well written
The fight for his humanity, his very soul
It made me smile, cry, scream and laugh
Love love love
I’ve already cast my vote for the next one
Omg don’t want to leave this series I want to stay in this series they are so amazing
I can’t wait for this next one
(Fingers are crossed for Rowan but I would love any one of them)
🌟10⭐️ Don’t care sue me
I love these series they are so effortless so exciting they get better with every book
The world building the character development, the hot squad (insert squeal)🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I need more
This story was so good so well written
The fight for his humanity, his very soul
It made me smile, cry, scream and laugh
Love love love
I’ve already cast my vote for the next one
Omg don’t want to leave this series I want to stay in this series they are so amazing
I can’t wait for this next one
(Fingers are crossed for Rowan but I would love any one of them)
October 30, 2026
🌟10⭐️ Don’t care sue me
I love these series they are so effortless so exciting they get better with every book
The world building the character development, the hot squad (insert squeal)🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I need more
This story was so good so well written
The fight for his humanity, his very soul
It made me smile, cry, scream and laugh
Love love love
I’ve already cast my vote for the next one
Omg don’t want to leave this series I want to stay in this series they are so amazing
I can’t wait for this next one
(Fingers are crossed for Rowan but I would love any one of them)
I love these series they are so effortless so exciting they get better with every book
The world building the character development, the hot squad (insert squeal)🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I need more
This story was so good so well written
The fight for his humanity, his very soul
It made me smile, cry, scream and laugh
Love love love
I’ve already cast my vote for the next one
Omg don’t want to leave this series I want to stay in this series they are so amazing
I can’t wait for this next one
(Fingers are crossed for Rowan but I would love any one of them)
October 28, 2026
Rating 3.7/5
Spice: 💨 (a little)
The plot line was decent and the main characters do show depth which I liked. There’s a lot of “the power of love and god just solves everything” which I didn’t like. There’s were some good twists in there which I djdnt expect and did appreciate. Unfortunately, spicy scenes read like a virgin trying to explain the true connection of love.
Spice: 💨 (a little)
The plot line was decent and the main characters do show depth which I liked. There’s a lot of “the power of love and god just solves everything” which I didn’t like. There’s were some good twists in there which I djdnt expect and did appreciate. Unfortunately, spicy scenes read like a virgin trying to explain the true connection of love.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 11, 2026
I can’t even begin to tell you how disappointed I am with this series! I mean seriously……love conquers all……even dark powerful magic! Really!?! The ending is super anticlimactic and parts of the story are never explained nor finished! The first book started out strong, the last two ruined what could have been a great story. So sad!
October 26, 2026
Love both Shadow Borne and Ash Borne series by Aimee Lynn. I really love the quick release style of this series. Nobody wants to wait 2 years for the next book. Voski and Grace's story is a great read.
November 9, 2026
While I enjoyed the previous books I just couldn’t get through this one. It just went on and on and on about the same stuff, I finally got too sick of it to even want to bother skimming through the rest.
November 3, 2026
obsessed again!
I couldn’t out this series down, I read it a second time when this last book came out. Love the writing styles and characters. K
I couldn’t out this series down, I read it a second time when this last book came out. Love the writing styles and characters. K
November 4, 2026
I don’t mind going into dark places, especially when there is light at the end. But, I wasn’t a fan of the dominance.
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