Returning Rival: Realm Doors Book Two

War has come to the four realms, and while the mortals of the Mundane remain unaware of the risk to their freedom, the vampire race knows they must fight back before the wolves seal off Blutholme forever and leave them to starve. But they can't do it alone. To defend their realm, they need the help of the elahdril, the elven people of Galahidras. There's only one problem; an usurper queen still sits on the elahdril throne. Queen Heliana might have been elected to ascend to the throne when the last elahdrilas prince was murdered, but she is happy to let the wolves attack her own borders, as long as she is safe within the halls of Karycadra. She won't help vampires, not while she sees them as unwholesome, dead things, nor does she care that the Mundane will eventually be enslaved. Thankfully, she is not the last hope for the realms.

Nekyra of Rhynlas had been three when her father, Prince Fardir died and she was whisked away to live in exile, hiding behind a human face. After the events of book one, she is finally ready to go home, to return to the realm of her birth and learn the ways of her people. She's ready to take back her throne, but to do that, she must persuade Heliana that she doesn't want the throne at all. She needs to survive, without being executed as a traitor, until she figures out how best to remove Heliana and bring to heel a people who see her as the breaker of traditions. To do that, she must wear her human face again, and hold her tongue when she would declare Heliana's time over. But she can't wait too long to take back her crown, not while Ric, the vampire who holds her heart, is at risk in Blutholme.

It is time to become the queen she was born to be.