A marriage neither wanted. A passion too epic to deny.

Disappear into this magnetic tale of a stormy arranged marriage built on the backs of ruined lives and broken hearts.

Erran Rutland, heir to the wealthiest region in the Southerlands, would have surrendered his birthright for his first love, until she was sold into a political marriage. To alleviate the dishonor he brings upon his family when he tries to steal her back, his father arranges a quick, quiet betrothal with someone far beneath his station.

One day his heart is shattered, the next he’s married to the most unnerving woman he’s ever met.

Mariel Ashdown is even more disgusted by the match. The Rutlands and their lackeys first starved her people and then stole their land from under them, leaving blight and death in their merciless wake.

From the heartache was born Obsidian Sky, a band of rebels she founded at the young age of twelve. They work under the subterfuge of darkness and masks, slowly taking back everything pilfered from their people. But her repulsive marriage affords her something they could never obtain on their own.

Access.

This next job could change everything, but if they fail, she and her five friends—including her beloved brother—will hang.

Erran is not the stupid dilletante she assumes him to be. He’s known from the start she’s hiding something. Motivated by the threat of being disowned if he cannot get his marriage in order, he follows her one fateful morning, and what he discovers, he simply cannot believe. Before he can even process it, though, she does something drastic to save her friends from the scaffold.

He’s faced with a choice he has no time to ponder.

Though Mariel has offered her husband nothing but contempt, Erran takes a leap of faith, leaving them shipwrecked, battered, and fighting for their very survival.

The Flame and the Forsaken is an enemies to lovers, female Robin Hood fantasy romance set in the Kingdom of the White Sea Universe, featuring characters first introduced in The Sylvan and the Sand. It is the second story in the Southerlands Cycle duology of The Book of All Things.

She's eager for every lesson he teaches.

Escape into this tempting tale of a reserved scholar and the young, enthusiastic disciple ready to learn everything he has to offer.

Aesylt watched her father and brother, along with half their village, massacred by the vengeful king when she was only eight. This violence thrust her into the role of leading their people through the aftermath, until her other brother suddenly returns a decade later to resume the mantle of stewardship, leaving her without a purpose.

But then another man enters her life: Duke Rahn Tindahl, a reserved scholar from the king's court who has traveled to their village to help with the ambitious task of creating the first encyclopedia of their kingdom.

By the light of an evening fire, Rahn asks Aesylt to be his disciple. With stars in her eyes, she eagerly accepts.

Together, they chart the celestial skies, finding shared passion in studying, learning, and friendship. But when their curriculum shifts to a more intimate subject, it shakes the foundation of everything they've built.

Determined to forge a path as a scholar, there's nothing Aesylt won't do in the name of their research. Rahn, however, knows there are some boundaries they should never cross.

Then Aesylt is publicly accused of using dark magic, and a violent coup forces them to flee to another village, conveniently affording them all the privacy they need.

For the science, they whisper, as their illicit research escalates, as they risk everything.

Because the forbidden feelings they've been secretly battling have been waiting for just such an opportunity.

And not all boxes, once opened, can be closed again.

The Duke and the Disciple is an age gap, teacher/student fantasy romance set in the Kingdom of the White Sea Universe, featuring characters first introduced in The Claw and the Crowned. It is the second story in the Sceptre Cycle of The Book of All Things. The final novel in the trilogy is The Tempest and the Tides.