BOOK #4

Start with The Leviathan. Payne is the Highlander of Blackchurch. There is no better combatant at the Blackchurch Guild, but there's a reason for that. Both of his parents were warriors. But he's about to step onto the fighting platform of a much-larger world stage. Astria Julia is the daughter of Sancho I of Portugal, a royal princess by blood. She also happens to be a rebel, a lass with a mysterious past, and when she ends up at Blackchurch as a spoil of war, Payne gets much more than he bargains for with the Portuguese princess. Head to head combat between Payne and Astria soon turns to something else, something soft and warm that neither one of them recognize. When Astria finally reveals the truth behind her persona, Payne is in too deep to do anything about it. He is now part of her, she of him. And the results could be deadly.