Around the shifting borders of the Twelve Kingdoms,
trade
and conflict, danger and adventure put every traveler on
guard . . . but some have everything to lose.
ESCAPED
Once she was known as Jenna, Imperial Princess of Dasnaria,
schooled in graceful dance and comely submission. Until the
man her parents married her off to almost killed her with
his brutality.
Now, all she knows is that the ship she’s boarded is bound
away from her vicious homeland. The warrior woman aboard
says Jenna’s skill in dancing might translate into a more
lethal ability. Danu’s fighter priestesses will take her
in,
disguise her as one of their own—and allow her to keep her
silence.
But it’s only a matter of time until Jenna’s monster of a
husband hunts her down. Her best chance to stay hidden is
to
hire out as bodyguard to a caravan traveling to a far-off
land, home to beasts and people so unfamiliar they seem
like
part of a fairy tale. But her supposed prowess in combat is
a fraud. And sooner or later, Jenna’s flight will end in
battle—or betrayal . . .