Given Duet
Putnam
April 2017
On Sale: April 11, 2017
352 pages ISBN: 0399544615 EAN: 9780399544613 Kindle: B01IOHQ9J6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Kings and Queens rise and fall, loyalties collide, and romance blooms in a world where the sea is risingβand cannot be escaped.
Khosa is Given to the Sea, a girl born to be fed to the water, her flesh preventing a wave like the one that destroyed the Kingdom of Stille in days of old. But before sheβs allowed to dancean uncontrollable twitching of the limbs that will carry her to the shore in a frenzyβshe must produce an heir. Yet the thought of human touch sends shudders down her spine that not even the sound of the tide can match.
Vincent is third in line to inherit his throne, royalty in a kingdom where the old linger and the young inherit only boredom. When Khosa arrives without an heir he knows his father will ensure she fulfills her duty, at whatever cost. Torn between protecting the throne he will someday fill, and the girl whose fate is tied to its very existence, Vincentβs loyalty is at odds with his heart.
Dara and Donil are the last of the Indiri, a native race whose dwindling magic grows weaker as the island country fades. Animals cease to bear young, creatures of the sea take to the land, and the Pietraβfierce fighters who destroyed the Indiri a generation beforeβare now marching from their stony shores for the twinβs adopted homeland, Stille.
Witt leads the Pietra, their army the only family he has ever known. The stone shores harbor a secret, a growing threat that will envelop the entire landβand he will conquer every speck of soil to ensure the survival of his people.
The tides are turning in Stille, where royals scheme, Pietrans march, and the rising sea calls for its Given.
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