Thundercrest and the Just Flame: Book 15 (Painted Path Series)

Some flames destroy. Others reveal.

Fifteen-year-old Ali doesn’t want to heal. She wants justice. Real justice. The kind that burns. When the people who hurt her walk free and the ones who should’ve protected her stay silent, Ali stops waiting for someone else to fix things. She’ll do it herself.

But her fury—white-hot and righteous—doesn’t lead her forward. It leads her into the wild.

There, in the raw silence of the mountains, Ali meets Thundercrest: a black Noriker horse with storm in his veins and judgment in his eyes. He’s not tame. Not safe. Not interested in pity. But he doesn’t turn away from her fire. He meets it with his own.

As the storms deepen and the path turns treacherous, Ali is forced to face truths she never asked for. Thundercrest does not carry her away from pain—he carries her into it. Not to break her, but to transform her. Through wind, trial, and fire, Ali must learn the difference between revenge and justice… and find out what still lives beneath the ash.

This is not a story of soft healing.
This is a story of earned reckoning.
Of what it means to stand, speak, and stay—when it would be easier to burn everything down.

From the acclaimed Painted Path Series, Thundercrest and the Just Flame is a soul-deep tale of courage, reckoning, and the long road toward true justice. For readers who believe healing isn’t the absence of pain, but the presence of truth.