New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns to the high-stakes, sweeping world of dragons, romance, and drama first evoked in her bestselling young adult Firelight series, in a brand-new epic adult romantasy series.
Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying.
But human lust for power is immortal.
Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous…especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it's her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard...though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.
When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.
The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride...but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone.
Magic is not dead...it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205822553-a-fire-in-the-sky
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My Review: 4/5 Stars
Tamsyn has been raised alongside the princesses of Penterra to the point where they consider themselves sisters, but she is not their sister. No. Her position for the royal family is to be their whipping girl. To teach the princesses discipline, Tamsyn is punished for their misdeeds. This is all she has ever known. But things are changing. When Fell, the lord of the Borderlands, arrives to report to the king, he asks for something in exchange for continuing to keep his land and theirs safe. He wants to marry a princess. His hope is that this arrangement will get him a seat at the table to actually make change and protect their people better. But the king and his advisors have other plans. They force Tamsyn to take the place of one of the princesses and succeed when they hide her face long enough for their marriage to be valid. Despite his anger at the deception, Fell decides he will accept Tamsyn but he won’t forget what happened. And together they set off back to his home. This is the beginning of so many changes. First off, loved Tamsyn and Fell. There is great chemistry between them and we are only just getting to know them and explore their connection in this story. There is of course lots of talk and magic and dragons and a few surprises that come our way before we reach that cliffhanger of an ending! I am definitely looking forward to exploring more of this world and seeing where this story takes us.
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