“The Face of Fire” is Mikhail Lipark’s novel, the first book of the “Clash of Elements” cycle, battle fantasy and adventure fantasy genres. Sarvill Khold is an ordinary young man from a poor quarter. Day by day he takes care of his mother and sick sister, dreaming that one day he’ll be able to escape with his loved ones to another country and start a new life. But one day the kingdom’s higher authority sentences him to death for a crime he didn’t commit. Now, looking out at the crowd from the scaffold, he has only two paths—die, or uncover the truth about his destiny.