The Girl Who Wrote on Water

<p><strong>Sometimes a catastrophe isn't the worst of your problems</strong></p><p> </p><p>As dust settles on the buried kingdom of Ymittos Princess Derya faces a horrifying truth: her friend Princess Eliana has perished after failing to break an evil sorcerer's curse. Which means the next obstacle in the plot to enslave the continent is Derya's father - the Emperor of Cinar.</p><p> </p><p>When the emperor tasks Derya with forming a crucial alliance her only way forward is to race the sorcerer in a hunt for the magical scepter he lost a millennium ago. If he retrieves it he'll be unstoppable in his quest to dominate the world.</p><p> </p><p>Seeking the scepter in barbarian-controlled territory could cost Derya her life.</p><p>But if she refuses the quest she loses her right to the empire.</p><p>And if she fails there won't be an empire left to inherit.</p>