When the world breaks, some boys shatter. Others rise from the ashes. After a public execution shatters his family, Collin is cast into a world unraveling under tyranny. As villages fall and the young are forced into the regime's brutal campaigns, he and his friends find themselves caught between survival and resistance. In the midst of violence, Collin clings to the fierce bonds of friendship, the ache of first love, and the haunting legacy of those who came before. Sweeping and intimate, Lullaby from the Fire is the first book in Songs of Crimisa, charting a journey from longing and sacrifice to the first flickers of rebellion—the spark that starts a revolution across the series.