She’d captured the rebel leader but checkmating the enemy was not enough. The battering ram boomed through the hidden chamber, a looming threat. Liandra needed a way to proclaim victory and end the fighting. Time was against her. The battering ram’s relentless pounding proved the grim truth. The ...
The Mordant treated her like a high-priced courtesan, sending her on assignations with rich nobles and influential lords. She gave them a single night of incomparable sex, dangling the promise of more, and they forfeited their souls to Darkness, working the Mordant's will upon the queen's kingdom...
Moonlight filtered through the branches, silvering their bower like a blessing from the gods. Naked, they lay entwined beneath the great oak tree. She kissed him, reveling in his touch, in his taste, in his warmth. Tenderness burned to a deep-seated need. She ached for him. He rolled on top, his ...
Twisting beneath the wool blanket, she found no answers and she found no peace. Her glance speared the lead-paned window but it remained stubbornly dark, proof it was too early to rise. A fist pounded on her door. Startled, she reached for her sword, steel slithering from leather. The pounding co...