The Shadow King

King Aldin has spent the time since the fall of Ankara rebuilding the neighboring kingdom and shoring up his own hold on the throne, all while protecting the uneasy alliance that brought the war between the two lands to an end. Just as lasting peace seems within reach, new threats stir and place both his life and his country in the hands of the people he has most reason to fear.

Pria leads the Turnskin, a people who have been locked in a bloody feud with Aldin's kingdom for generations. She never expected to stand beside that kingdom, but fate leaves the king's life in her care. To save everyone from foreign invaders intent on taking the country, she has to set aside her old grudges.

With assassins waiting behind every door and a weakened nation hanging in the balance, the king and the warrior are caught between fear and forgiveness, and between war and redemption. Staying alive means letting old wounds heal for their people's sake and coming to terms with the darkest parts of themselves.

Their reluctant truce slowly turns into something deeper, but more dangers are gathering on the horizon. The question is whether they can escape the fate that binds them and hold the crown, or whether the bond forming between them will be what undoes them both.