In the Shadow of a Hoax

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In the kingdom of Kaloma a woman cannot own land money or even her own future. It's the law-and for Tarley Fareview it's a cage she refuses to accept. Idealistic stubborn and determined to carve out a life on her own terms she's spent years pushing against a system designed to keep her small.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But when defending herself from a man who won't take no for an answer puts her at risk of imprisonment Tarley is forced to flee into the Whitling Woods disguised as a boy. There she stumbles upon a dying stranger and faces an impossible choice: walk away to save herself... or risk everything to save him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>She chooses him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The stranger is no ordinary man. Lachlan Nikolas-crown prince of Jast traveling in disguise for treaty negotiations-has survived an attack that should have killed him. Stripped of his identity and barely clinging to life he wakes to the care of a mysterious young boy whose courage and compassion defy the world he thought he knew.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As Tarley hides the truth of who she is and Lachlan struggles to rebuild who he might become their fates tangle in ways neither expects. But danger is closing in and the fragile peace between their kingdoms hangs by a thread. If the truth of their identities is revealed it could destroy the treaty... and each other.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In the Shadow of a Hoax</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> continues the sweeping romantasy saga of the Fareview sisters-four women bound by law shaped by magic and destined to challenge the fate laid out for them.</span></p>