A Torch Against the Night

A Torch Against the Night is a young adult fantasy romance novel written by Pakistani-American author Sabaa Tahir. It was published on August 30, 2016, by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House. It is the second book in the An Ember in the Ashes series, preceded by An Ember in the Ashes and followed by A Reaper at the Gates. The story follows three different first-person narrators: former slave Laia, determined to free her brother from prison; former Empire soldier Elias, who has deserted to help Laia; and Helene, the reluctant Blood Shrike for the Empire and Elias's former best friend, who has been tasked with hunting him down.