Passion Play
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WINNER for Best Epic Fantasy, 2010 RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards
Therez Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek’s most prominent merchants. Hers is a life of wealth and privilege, and she knows her duty—to marry well and to the family’s advantage. But when Therez meets the much older man her father chose, she realizes he is far crueler than her father could ever be.
She decides to run. This choice will change her life forever.
Therez changes her name to Ilse and buys passage with a caravan bound for distant cities. Her flight leads her to Lord Raul Kosenmark, once a councilor of the old king and now master of a famous pleasure house. But feasts and courtesans are only the outermost illusion in this house of secrets, and Ilse soon discovers a world of magic and political intrigue beyond anything she had imagined.
“Passion Play, indeed. Passionate, articulate, clever, this book sings right along. Desperate measures and hope bundled together in a daring adventure. Byzantine politics seldom combine so well with great characters. A marvelous debut novel.” —Patricia Briggs, New York Times bestselling author
“Passion Play immediately plunges you into a deep world of past lives and magic…the layers are crafted so masterfully that you can’t put the book down to climb out of the story.” —L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series
“Readers will be impatient for a sequel.” —Publishers Weekly “
…a rich, compulsively readable fantasy.” —Booklist
Queen’s Hunt
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Months have passed since Ilse Zhalina abandoned her beloved Raul Kosenmark to start a new life in the garrison city of Osterling Keep. Theirs is a dangerous game, with enemies on both sides of the border. While Raul continues to influence the kingdom’s politics from afar, Ilse is set on her own quest to find the fabled jewels of the goddess Lir. Two have been lost to humankind for centuries. One is held by Leos Dzavek, king of Károví and sworn enemy of Veraene. In her search, she encounters a shipwrecked prisoner from another land, a woman who has a secret of her own…and the second jewel. The two women become uneasy allies in their hunt for the third, because finding it could mean salvation for both of their realms.
“The promise of Passion Play is realized in this complex sequel, a tale of intrigue among kingdoms on the brink of war…a masterful story of romance, honor, and a little bit of suspense, with plenty of history, geography, and mythology thrown in for good measure. This trip between the physical and magical realms is thrilling.” —Publishers Weekly
Allegiance
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King Leos, the near immortal ruler of Károví, is dead. The three jewels who granted him such power have reunited into a single magical entity and vanished back into the magical void, where they were born.
But the gods are not yet satisfied. With Károví in turmoil and the king of Veraene eager to establish a new empire, the threat of war remains. Valara Baussay, Morennioù’s long-absent queen, wants nothing more than to return home and reclaim her crown. Duke Miro Karasek must honor his promise to undo the wrongs he visited upon her and her queendom. And Ilse Zhalina is desperate to carry vital news that might save her homeland from an ill-advised war.
Ilse makes this long journey back to where her story began, to complete the journey she attempted lives and centuries before, and to bring peace between the realms.
“Old friends, enemies, and allies continue their deadly game, unsure whether it will end in war or peace, in the third River of Souls fantasy… Readers will be on the edge of their seats with every machination and twist, delighted as characters who were introduced in passing suddenly have their places and purposes revealed.” —Publishers Weekly