The Exile's Curse: 1 (Daughter of Ravens)

To save her new life she needs the man who destroyed her old one...Chloe de Montesse never thought shed return from exile. Now she has a chance to reclaim the life she fled after her husband was executed for treason. But coming home again isnt as simple as it sounds. Her magic is rusty her family want her to wrap her in cotton wool and Illvyan society views her as a scandal waiting to happen. Worse her new life keeps throwing her into the path of the man who destroyed her old one.Lucien de Roches magic bares the truth for all to see. Hes used it to serve the empire but theres one secret hes always kept hidden. The fact that he fell in love with his best friends wife. And that hes never quite fallen out again. Now Chloe is back and its no secret at all that she loathes him for his part in her husbands death. A sensible man would forget her...but hes tired of being sensible. And determined to keep her safe.When a mission from the emperor takes them both into the wildest heart of the empire to a country where power and loyalties collide and old plots simmer back to life Chloe finds herself dragged back into the past she wants to leave behind. And her only way out might be Lucien. The man she thinks she can never trust. The man she wants to hate. Or hates to want...