Hi sunflowers! Our wonderful Action/Adventure and Science Fiction judge, pixelmum, has two books you should check out! Here's one, Of Swans and Ravens. Link to the book is in the comments here:

Margot, a disinherited viscountess, is forced to work as a servant for her widowed step-mother and her step-sister, Adelaide.

As noble heiress to the strategic peninsula of Les Marches, a vital outpost in the imminent border wars, it is expected that Adelaide will marry the Crown Prince, freeing Margot from servitude and allowing her to elope with her headstrong lover, Kari, a local farmer's daughter.

Tragedy strikes when Kari travels north to seek her fortune, leaving Margot behind. The Crown Prince rejects Adelaide, leaving her devastated, and sending the nation spiralling towards war.

But Margot has no time for despair; a beautiful and mysterious hooded woman is following her, somehow connected to Margot's dead mother, and the cityfolk hear rumours of a great army assembling at the border.

Margot leaves her home, determined to discover her mother's identity and to thwart war at all costs. But the Crown Prince's spies are ever-watchful, his most deadly spy known only as the Raven. Dangerous and elusive, the Raven fears nobody, apart from the hooded beauty who is bent on assisting Margot in her quest.

Can Margot unravel the Crown Prince's plans before war breaks out, or will the Raven silence her forever?