Author: sonyalano

A guild slave in a city of mages, Lysium dances on a magical stage while stars drift from her hair and whisper secret persuasions into the minds of her audience. Every evening she chronicles her memories, for every night comes a shadow who steals them away.She lives each day dancing in the arms of the handsome, aloof husband the guild has given her to while their best friend, a fireseller and a … fireseller and a slave as they are, has shorn his hair in a sorrow he refuses to speak of.Until the day the guildmaster makes Lysium the crowning…

The people of the Seven Demesnes live in unease. Every generation, seven sons are born to rule their seven walled cities. Without them, mankind is fated to fall.Now, something is killing them before they can be born.***When Iminique Demascus senses a nameless evil striking at the unborn royal children, she has to make a choice. A noblewoman and a healer in a world where aristocrats and mages … aristocrats and mages belong to different castes, she is forbidden by her father to ever heal. Breaking his dictate, she saves a single girl child.No one thanks her. Neither the child’s parents…