Book Two of The Chronicles of the Aethlum
- Format: Paperback
- Trim size: 5 × 8 inches
- Length: ~780 pages
- Status: Available
Thirteen months after Eldryn Ravencourt first finds the great white wolf Veyla, Silverwood begins to change. Eldryn trains to understand the power waking inside him, learning control, discipline, and the weight of what he is becoming.
But while one boy rises toward the light, another begins to fall.
Auren — Thalorin’s son, cousin to Eldryn, loved deeply within the fortress walls — feels something twisting beneath his thoughts, a presence that feeds resentment, jealousy, and doubt until even devotion starts to fracture. The darkness does not arrive with armies. It arrives quietly, through whispers, through fear, through the slow unmaking of trust.
As loyalties strain and the world tightens around them, a line is crossed that cannot be uncrossed. Betrayal carries consequence. Violence leaves scars. And the shadows waiting beyond Silverwood feel closer with every step.
Of Shadows and Light is the saga’s turning point — where survival becomes something sharper, and the fate of Illyndor begins to bend.
Recent Reviews
BethanReviewerI wasn’t even planning to buy this today. I saw it in the shop, recognised the name from Eternal Ember, picked it up… and that was it. I had to know what happens next.
I haven’t read a single page yet, but if anything happens to Eldryn — or the wolf pup — I’m going to be furious. In the good way. You can’t just do that to readers and then expect us to walk away.
The cover alone feels like a warning. Like the story’s about to stop being kind. I don’t even care, I need answers.
I’m starting it tonight. You’d better tell me what happens, MJ Kaye.
2 months agoLaura M.ReviewerYou did not do this to me give me the next book nowI loved this book and I’m also slightly furious with it — in the best possible way. Of Shadows and Light doesn’t just raise the stakes, it flips the table and walks away.
By the end I was excited, unsettled, and honestly a bit scared of where the story is heading. It feels like something huge has been unleashed, and I don’t trust anyone to be safe anymore. I finished the last chapter buzzing, half thrilled and half panicking.
MJ Kaye, if you’re reading this: please release Book Three immediately. I am not emotionally prepared to wait.
2 months agoHannah P., early readerReviewerOf Shadows and Light – Oh my…I finished Of Shadows and Light feeling genuinely unsettled — not confused, not disappointed, just emotionally shaken. The book changes something fundamental in the story, and you feel it happen rather than being told it has.
There’s a moment where you realise the ground has shifted under your feet, and from that point on the tone never fully recovers. I didn’t scream, but I wanted to. The kind of reaction where your chest tightens and you’re silently begging the book to stop — and then you keep reading anyway.
It’s rare for a fantasy novel to make you feel like you’ve witnessed the birth of something you can’t unsee. I closed the book knowing the story could never go back to what it was before.
2 months ago
“The Aethlum Saga isn’t a checklist of familiar fantasy tropes or a tidy prophecy-driven tale where everything is foretold and inevitable. It isn’t a story of effortless chosen ones, convenient destinies, or cardboard heroes marching from quest marker to quest marker. It isn’t interested in exposition, hand-holding, or predictable turns dressed up as mystery.
It isn’t fantasy as comfort-food spectacle — it’s fantasy as lived survival, where love, community, fear, manipulation, faith, and power collide in ways that feel frighteningly real, and where the darkest threats often arrive quietly, through whispers, doubt, and the slow unmaking of a soul.
Because Aethlum refuses to follow the usual fantasy script, it feels terrifyingly alive — like anything can happen, and the characters have to earn every ounce of light they find.” — Hannah Mervick
Availability
Eternal Ember is available for purchase through the following outlets:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- All Good Bookstores
- Directly from this website
- And Available in your local Library (May need to order)
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