Smoke and Steel Special Edition Paperback
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This edition includes three bonus prequel short stories and full-color maps of Sua and Ahnlisen
Scions and Shadows #2
To secure her crown, she must lose her heart
Saritrah cannot allow herself to fall in love with the Oracle, a woman who cannot hold a spear and who hesitates to kill. Before their deaths during the insurrection, Saritrah's parents taught her three things: loyalty is greater than love, trust no one, and only the strongest deserve to live. Saritrah is on a quest to take back her kingdom, and her people need a warrior queen—not someone weakened by love.
The Oracle has given her a path back to the throne: find a lost city, obtain an ancient artifact with unimaginable power, and kill those standing in her way, even if it might set a disastrous prophecy in motion. But the insurrectionists are not her only enemies. Her brother also survived, and he wants the artifact. While Saritrah seeks to avert calamity, he is courting it.
Saritrah must give up everything—her beliefs, her vision of the future, and perhaps even her crown—if she's to save herself, her kingdom, and the Oracle.
Smoke and Steel is part of the Scions and Shadows series but can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. It is perfect for fans of Xena: Warrior Princess who enjoy morally gray lesbians on a journey of redemption with lots of action, romance, and intrigue.
Nominated in the 2024 and 2025 Indie Ink Awards in multiple categories!
Cover: GetCovers
Edited by Ingrid Moon
Interior Illustrations: Chapter Headers by Liz Sauco
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This is a work of fiction; the behaviors, actions, and views of characters should not be conflated or confused with the author's opinions and beliefs. The presence of these darker themes in this work is not an endorsement of them. This list is as complete as the author can make it. Consensual intercourse, Violence, Murder, Execution, Revolution, Domestic violence, Arson, Assault, Torture, Blood, Religious abuse, Consumption of alcohol, Suicidal Ideation.
