A QUEEN WITH A SECRET ...Rissa, the tormented Warlord of Tiyan, struggles to protect her people and Tiyan's magical springs against enemies and traitors within her own walls. She must also safeguard the secret of Tiyan's magic and the source her ultimate doom: the parasitic demon lurking within her, which has awoken to kill her as is tradition every generation of ruler. A SLAVE WITH A VENDETTA ...Taran's sole motivation in life is his patient pursuit of vengeance for his family's death. Coincidence lands him in Tiyan and at the center of the kingdom's power struggle. The strength of Tiyan's army, the allure of the magical waters, and the endangered Warlord at first are nothing more than a means to an end, until he looks beneath the surface to find a world - and a woman - worth fighting for.