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Princess Azmei of Tamnen doesn’t like the decision she’s facing: marry Vistaren of Amethir or let her kingdom’s war go on with no end in sight. How much of herself must she sacrifice to keep her people safe?
Crown Prince Vistaren Doth’Mara isn’t exactly thrilled about their upcoming marriage either, particularly since he likes boys instead of girls. Torn between duty and desire, he doesn’t know what to do.
Privateer Arama Dzornaea’s mission is simple: she must transport the prince to meet his contracted bride. As captain of the Dawn Star, she thinks she can handle anything—even her unwelcome attraction to the prince’s personal bodyguard, General Lozarr Algot.
Princess, pirate, and prince are sailing to meet on neutral territory, but all is not as it seems. Azmei’s new friend, Orya, is more dangerous than she looks. Prince Vistaren has secrets of his own. Arama’s unruly stormwitch might bring the whole ship down. And there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent the alliance between Tamnen and Amethir.
There’s a storm on the horizon, and its shadow is growing to cover the whole world.
Stephanie A. Cain grew up in Indiana, where much of her urban fantasy is set, but unfortunately has been unable to visit Amethir or Tamnen, where her epic fantasy novels are set.
She graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing, with a Medieval Studies minor. She has two-thirds of a Master of Library Science, but ran out of money and enthusiasm for grad school at about the same time. Despite this, her years of work in libraries were not wasted--besides having a lot of librarian friends (everyone should have at least one) she also spent a great deal of time hanging out in the stacks at 398.2, which gave rise to many of her urban fantasy stories.
Stephanie's favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Moon, Tamora Pierce, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Garth Nix, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Robin McKinley.
A proud crazy cat lady, Stephanie is happily owned by Eowyn, Strider, and Eustace Clarence Scrubb. In her free time, she enjoys hiking (except for the spiders), bird-watching, visiting wineries, and collecting anything with owls on it. She likes to unwind by playing Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Skyrim on her PC. She enjoys organizing things, is overly fond of notebooks, and visits office supply stores for fun. She owns way more movie scores and fountain pens than she can actually afford.
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