VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (Now Tasmania), Australia 1840. Jessica has been transported for the theft of a brooch. A crime she did not commit. Beaten and brutalized by Muster Master Pead, she is assigned to wealthy shipping merchant Louis Copeland. A man she refuses to obey. The battle begins. Louis realises she is not who she says she is. His search to find out the real circumstances behind her transportation ignites feelings he has never experienced before. Can he get the stubborn wench to fall in love with him or will he have to send her back to Port Arthur's notorious penal colony and certain death? SOME MATURE CONTENT

[ BOOK 1 OF AZITERA: YTHER'S QUEEN ] Consumed by avarice, the four human kingdoms-the Infernal Empire, the Kingdom of Caelum, the Kingdom of Treterra, and the Nayale Archipelago-betrayed their covenant with Yther of Azitera, the race blessed by deities, who protected humans for untold centuries. They slaughtered and defiled the beings that once protected them from storm, famine, poverty, and pestilence without mercy. Betrayed by the humans they protected, the Ytherians were enslaved. Their four queens were caged, chained, and imprisoned to serve as nutrients to the human kingdoms. The once prominent Ytherians were reduced to nothing but servants. As the four kingdoms of the human race prospered for many years since their betrayal, one news staggered them, causing them to tremble in fear and rally their armies to protect and defend their domain: Sollel-the Mistress of Flame, one of Yther's queens-had escaped her prison. Her flames will raze hell, ready to burn the souls of her betrayers. COMPLETED CECELIB | C.C. COVER: ASTRID JAYDEE