Desert Siren
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  • Reads 2,022
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  • Parts 30
  • Time 8h 32m
Complete, First published Sep 29, 2021
Jayza is a member of the Ta'njar tribe, considered uncouth and illiterate barbarians by the Emperor and Nobility of the Seven Lands. But Jayza is anything but uncouth or illiterate. And she has a secret the Emperor is desperate to uncover. The lone survivor of a raid by the elite cohort known as the Raptors, Jayza is taken prisoner and sent on a journey that will ultimately deliver her to the Emperor's dungeons.
But the secret the Emperor seeks is not the only one Jayza has. Jayza is a Desert Siren, a woman who can sing animals to sleep. Who can divert storms with a song. And who can kill with just her voice. And if that knowledge ever reaches the Emperor's ears, her life as she knows it is it over.
But Jayza has other secrets as well. And she soon discovers the  Emperor is not the only one who desperately seeks what she knows. Having no choice but to share some of her secrets with Premier General Tavan Enyo, Jayza finds that everything she has been taught to believe is not always as it seems. And that she cannot choose who she loves.
General Tavan Enyo is the Golden Eagle and head of the Raptors, second most powerful man in the Empire of the Seven Lands and answerable only to the Emperor himself. Believing the Ta'njar are inferior, he orders Jayza's family killed and her town razed. Shackling her in the slave wagon, he begins the long trek back to the Emperor's dungeons. But disaster after disaster befalls the Raptors journey and Tavan begins to realize that Jayza is not all she seems. Having no choice but to shackle her to his side, he begins to question his oaths, both to the Empire and to the Emperor himself. And to decide how far he will go in the name of love.
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