A Twist of the Blade

<p><strong>Mercenary. Survivor. Queen. </strong></p><p><em>Who is Casia Greythorne?</em></p><p><br></p><p>Still reeling from an unimaginable loss and the revelation of an identity she isn't sure she wants to embrace Casia has one plan: Try to control something. Something like the strange magic awakening inside of her. Mastering that magic will take her and her friends on a quest through cursed lands into the dwellings of old gods and deep into a southern empire filled with deadly foes and unlikely allies.</p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile the foundations of the Kethran Empire continue to crumble. The king-emperor clings to his crown with increasingly bloodied hands. Monsters and soldiers alike stalk Casia's every step determined not to let her return to claim a throne that is rightfully hers. Still the greatest threat to her possible rule may not lie in the king-emperor but in a former captain of his army-a man that she came dangerously close to falling in love with.</p><p><br></p><p>Elander Revenmar thought he knew who he was. He had a mission a plan a god he was content to serve. Then came Casia. A woman as mysterious as she is dangerous. One he should have stayed away from and whose life he never should have saved.</p><p><br></p><p>Because salvation always comes with a cost. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>And some debts can only be paid for in blood.</strong></p>