Author: emeryayres

The only light that can defeat this darkness is the light you carry within you.As the consort of the Prince of the Vampiri, Saphrona resolves not to lose her identity in Gideon’s shadowy world. Though she feels ever more drawn to him and sympathizes with his people’s struggle to emulate human compassion, she refuses to allow anything to threaten her autonomy.Gideon longs for Saphrona’s love, but … for Saphrona’s love, but he is reluctant to reveal the full reality of their new relationship, for fear it will drive an irrevocable wedge between them before he has a chance to win…

The power to love. The power to heed your own voice. The power to hope in a world of blood and shadow.Yesterday morning, most of Saphrona Melioska’s family was executed. Today, at dawn, she and her brother’s widow would have followed them to the block. But something changed.Saphrona doesn’t know who paid for their sentence to be commuted, but by that act of kindness, she and her hearth sister are … and her hearth sister are exiled to the remote island of Ghondatha, where Saphrona’s only relatives live.She has nothing to take with her but the legacy of ten generations…