The Uncharted Realms #2
Kensington
January 2017
On Sale: December 27, 2016
Featuring: Kral; Jepp
400 pages ISBN: 1496704266 EAN: 9781496704269 Kindle: B01DRXCGG2 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Twelve Kingdoms rest uneasy under their new High Queen, reeling from civil war and unchecked magics. Few remember that other powers once tested their bordersโuntil a troop of foreign warriors emerges with a challenge . . .
Jepp has been the heart of the queenโs elite guard, her Hawks, since long before war split her homeland. But the ease and grace that come to her naturally in fighting leathers disappears when battles turn to politics. When a scouting party arrives from far-away Dasnaria, bearing veiled threats and subtle bluffs, Jepp is happy to let her queen puzzle them out while she samples the pleasures of their princeโs bed.
But the cultural norms allow that a Dasnarian woman may be wife or bed-slave, never her own leaderโand Jeppโs light use of Prince Kral has sparked a diplomatic crisis. Banished from court, she soon becomes the only envoy to Kralโs strange and dangerous country, with little to rely on but her wits, her knivesโand the smolder of anger and attraction that burns between her and him . . .