CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC FANTASY / 85,000 words
A highborn wizard’s only contender to save his isolated clan is an escaped mage living in the city, but they clash as often as they spark, while a hidden enemy targets them both.
Modern wizards still rely on the old ways, where conquests are settled by dragon race, and when Alder Viisard needs a champion for his clan, the Order of Magic demands the rider be a clanless female mage without magic, as if a perilous dragon race isn’t sick and twisted enough. Yet Alder doesn’t have a choice but to obey. He’s next in line to be high wizard of his clan.
All Daya Foxbriar wants is freedom from the Order, and she thought she had it. Tormented as a child for lacking magic, she escaped her clan and built a life in the city as a mechanic and rockhopper racer. But her hard-earned freedom is shattered when a high and mighty wizard arrives and demands she save his clan from invasion.
Daya tells Alder to just keep looking. No way will she return to the Order, not even when she and Alder are attacked by unknown magical forces. Questioning his mission, he stays to protect her, but the mounting danger and betrayals force them to confront their growing feelings for each other. Now they must decide whether to go their separate ways or risk their lives to stop a common enemy and uncover a hidden truth about the Order of Magic…and Daya.
FEATURING: sarcasm, suspense, secrets, slow burn romance, strong heroine (okay, I’m done with the S’s), found family, emotional angst, dangerous stakes, heartbreak, and the occasional laugh-out-loud moment.
