A great evil has been destroyed, but what replaces it may rend the peace hoped for in two...
Agnir is dead. Six months have passed, and, still grieving heavy losses, two of the fivesome struggle to maintain a foothold in the precarious politics of a recovering Serpentine court. With nearly everyone against them and the world unwilling to help the race that struck down countless souls over the course of history, they fight for each other, but their own unhealed wounds and the pressure of the crown threaten to drive a wedge between them.
A boy, mastering his magic, wants more. Craving to have something more than the hum in his bones, he joins an academy which hones physical and magical skill--and runs into an old acquaintance.
A noble pirate finds a girl in a dungeon--a broken girl, who doesn't remember why she's there, or what she's missing.
A prodigal son seeks freedom across the sea, but fate and a red-haired wraith have other plans.
And beyond them all, a mage weaves his game and searches for a storm powerful enough to sink a city...
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~Winner of the 2018 Rune Awards "Most Engaging Characters" award in Fantasy~
~1st place in the Pen and Ink Awards "Fantasy" category~
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Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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