Shield Maiden

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her silence was her armour. Her heart her greatest danger.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ISLA SNOW has known only captivity-years hidden away in a government stronghold where loneliness became her companion and survival her art. Yet even in the darkest corners of that prison the truth finds her: she has never been alone.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her brief spark of hope is extinguished when she is returned to the Atlanteans and placed in the custody of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>MALLEVEN MANCINI</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-a man forged from secrets ambition and a magnetic darkness she has never been able to resist.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a world of decadent power and ruthless politics Isla is once again a commodity-something to be used traded or sacrificed. The kingdom hovers on the edge of revolution governments are moving like pieces on a board and Isla finds herself at the centre of a prophecy she never asked for.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But fate bows to no one... unless she forces its hand.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To claim her freedom-and her heart-Isla must risk everything she has ever guarded. Including the truth about the one man she has always loved.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fall seven times rise eight.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Siren's strength isn't her song.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's her heart.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her mind.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her blood.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>SHIELD MAIDEN</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the powerful third instalment in the 21st Century Sirens series where destiny collides with desire and one woman must choose between survival and the love that could destroy her.</span></p><p></p>