Sheâs big, bloodthirsty, and obliterates her enemies.
Never should they have met.
But they did...
With the Serpent Godâs ultimatum hanging over them, Honryn and Verdria know they are running out of time. The Festival of the Vine is only four months away. And on that night the deity will claim Honryn as his mortal vessel and Verdria as his consortâa fate they both want to avoid.
Yet one of the Serpent Godâs new âgiftsâ to Verdria allows her to wield soul mage magic, and she discovers she can now create long-distance portal spells like Honryn.
This proves groundbreaking because Honryn has been building a secret settlementâa city situated between dragon territory and Verdriaâs own homelandâand with Verdriaâs help Honryn can now supply his secret new settlement twice as fast, thus guaranteeing he can evacuate all his people to the new settlement before he becomes the host for a hostile god.
But there is just one problem with his plan.Â
Honryn isnât planning to go with them.
Heâs going to stay behind and become the new Priest-King and the mortal vessel for the Serpent God. Because if Honryn doesnât stay behind, and he flees with his family back to the mountains, his uncle will send the might of the empire to crush Verdriaâs homeland and ârescueâ Honryn.
As far as Verdria is concerned, she only has two choicesâfind a way to free Honryn from the Serpent God or stay by his side and become his consort.
Because thereâs no way sheâs abandoning him.
Lisa Blackwood is the author of the bestselling Gargoyle and Sorceress urban fantasy series. Her work has also landed on the Wall Street Journal and the USA Today Bestseller lists as part of the Dominion Rising Anthology. When sheâs not reading and writing, she also enjoys gardening and spending time with her horse and her dogs.
At present, she grudgingly lives in a small town in Southern Ontario, though she would much rather live deep in a dark forest, surrounded by majestic old-growth trees. Since she cannot live her fantasy, she decided to write fantasy instead.