Morning Diamond

Claire's thoughts whirled and her body trembled as she moved down the narrow corridor. Gone was the rhythmic rise of her chest in exchange for shallow gasps of thin dusky air which left her lightheaded. To add to her turmoil unfamiliar voices surrounded her. One misstep could be her undoing, and yet she had no idea why.
When Leishmann desires to be ruler over Danyon it becomes an obsessive determination that leaves a trail of death and destruction. In this time of great despair one man rises from the ashes to discover a way to stop Leishmann's ambitions and he pays the ultimate price.
To Claire, Danyon was nothing more than a childhood fairy tale until her home is attacked and her brothers are forced to reveal the horrible truth about her past and what is expected of her future. Now she is forced from her peaceful existence to fight her way through Leishmann's army to return to a home wrought with pain and desperately needing a leader. Her greatest devastation; however, does not come from meeting Leishmann face to face, but meeting his son. The moment her their eyes meet she knows that their fates are tangled together in the worst way possible.