The gods have abandoned the royal family of Nahwan. Nonetheless, fifteen-year-old mech-crazy Intan Aghavni enrolls in the piloting program at the Royal Military Academy, pursuing the vague memory of a woman who saved her life as a child... When the sudden appearance of rogue mechs on campus grounds propels her to the forefront of a political revenge plot that has lain dormant for almost twenty years.…
In snowbound Ruxalia, northern kingdom of ravens and pegasi, a cult seeks to bring about the Eternal Winter of prophecy.Watercaster Neris, a resistance leader from the southern nations, ventures into the frozen wastelands to recruit an old friend to her cause. But when idealism and former affections prove insufficient in persuading the remorseless killer-for-hire he has since become, she must resort to more drastic methods... Methods that inadvertently entangle her deeper and deeper into the affairs of a land not her own.Meanwhile, Firecaster Firiane, member of a secret society acting in opposition to the cult, hunts a traitor who has stolen an artifact long theorized to be the key to stopping the prophecy. But time is working against her, as are her own supposed allies. And even the most solidly supported theory may be disproved in an instant.What neither woman realizes: their every action brings the cult closer to its goals.…
As a child, Ashne swore two oaths. With her adopted sister Zsaran she made a pact: one would never die without the other. To their mistress, the queen, who plucked them both out of the inhospitable marshlands, she vowed eternal loyalty.When a tiger spirit from a rival kingdom kidnaps the queen's only daughter, Ashne, now a trusted bodyguard, follows in pursuit despite knowing that her sword will be of little use against the ancient magic steadily reawakening across the land. But it is her human adversaries who prove more dangerous as she navigates the shifting political landscape in a kingdom still recovering from a decades-long war: a foreign sorcerer, an eccentric apothecary, an ambitious bandit chief — perhaps even Zsaran, who has long awaited a chance to achieve freedom for both herself and Ashne.Soon Ashne can no longer reconcile her love for her sister and her devotion to the women they have both served since childhood. Yet she must bring back the princess regardless. If not for love and duty, for her people's continued survival against the encroachment of powerful foreign conquerors, before whose ravenous ambitions the squabbles of two tribal kingdoms amount to dust.…
Once upon a time, a cat fell in love with an ambitious man.…