The Traitor's Heir and the War Crown

About this book:

Crown Princess Aurelia Solane is marrying the realm's greatest general three weeks before war breaks on their border—a political masterstroke to unite throne and sword against the massed legions of Kaelen. General James Vane is a tactical genius who rose from nothing, the orphan hero who knows every crag of the Ironwood Ridge and exactly how the enemy thinks. He has pledged his life to her defense. He has also pledged his heart, in the quiet way of men who let actions speak. But beneath his armor lies a signet ring bearing the coiled serpent of Kaelen's fallen royal house, and the face in the water matches the portraits in the enemy's burned palace.

As signal pyres bloom along the southern ridge and the wedding day looms, Aurelia and James maneuver through a court of whispering nobles, a king haunted by the last war, and a strategy that demands James lure the Kaelenese prince into a trap of his own making. Every order James gives secures Valenor's survival—and edges him closer to the truth of his own blood. The enemy across the mountains shares his face. The ring at his throat burns heavier with each vow he keeps. And the woman he would die for trusts a man who may be the very thing she's sworn to destroy.

From the claustrophobic councils of the Sunken Citadel to the killing grounds of the Screaming Gorge, *The Traitor's Heir and the War Crown* is a high-stakes fantasy of impossible loyalties, where the sharpest blade is the secret you carry, and the crown you fight for may demand the one thing you cannot give: your true name.