GENRE: Adult Fantasy
STATUS: Querying
Description:
Deposed and exiled from her beloved country, Rowyn Drekir spends years fighting in the sandpits of the desert to earn money toward an army or a ship home. One of four wights blessed with a second form to protect the land, Rowyn is desperate to break the curse that binds her dragon’s form, and exact revenge on the cousin that took everything from her. So when Knox Wynterran, a handsome soldier, offers her an army in exchange for the silver and magic his king needs, Rowyn strikes a deal to help her win her throne and powers back. However, she is waylaid by obstacle after obstacle that prevent her return and her revenge. But if Rowyn doesn’t return in time, her country will be lost to the blight birthed by her absence.
Ruthless and adamant about retaining her position, Nora Arthfilius seeks to prevent her cousin from returning to reclaim the throne at all costs. She works hard to strengthen the country, and provide equality for other magic-wielders, like herself. Desperate to keep the people’s tenuous support from slipping through her clenched fist, she combats the blight plaguing the land all while hiding her chronic pain, which she fears the people will never accept. When she discovers the blight worsening, she is forced to convince the remaining wights to help, despite their precarious relationship. However, Nora learns she can’t stop the blight without the cousin that she wants gone.
When Rowyn and Nora reunite in a battle for the throne, a betrayal sends them reeling—a betrayal that reveals a long-buried secret about the realm that changes everything.
Aryn Cordner 