GENRE: NA Fantasy
STATUS: Revising
DESCRIPTION:
Long ago, a cursed princess slept for one hundred years and plunged her kingdom into civil war.
Twenty-year-old Ashryn Vaelhollis survives in the battleground between the First and Second Kingdoms. She is familiar with loss, and survival—and bears the mental scars as a result. To keep her traumatic memories and the resulting stress at bay, she fills her days with battle training, refilling her mother’s herb stores, and tending to her griffin, Kyf. But when Second Kingdom forces attack her village, Ash learns a long-buried secret when her magic is unleashed. Now, Ash must return to her birthplace to a role she never wanted, and learn how to wield her dangerous power to unite the fractured kingdom. But to win the war, she must pay a price, and the cost is not something she is willing to lose.
Dresden Rockforte, a Second Kingdom spy, infiltrated the First Kingdom and earned himself a place at the king’s side. When the heirs, long thought dead, return to the castle, Dresden will stop at nothing to win the heart of the princess in order to destroy her kingdom. Only, Dresden has more than one secret he’s keeping, and the truth might shatter everything he’s built.
As the war escalates and stakes rise, Ash and Dresden are forced to work together on a mission for the crown. But as their loyalties are tested, for which crown do they ultimately choose to fight?
Aryn Cordner 