Book #1

After an endless war the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, an alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the kingdoms of the south. That alliance is all that stands against the return of an ancient evil-until the barbarian king and queen are slain. Though forbidden by the alliance council to kill the king responsible for his parents' murders, Maddek vows to avenge them, even if it costs him the Parsathean crown. But when he learns it was the king's daughter who lured his parents to their deaths, he is determined to make her pay. Yet the woman Maddek captures is not what he expected. The last in a line of legendary warrior-queens, the sharpest weapons Yvenne wields are her mind and her tongue. Even more surprising is the marriage she proposes to unite their goals and to claim their thrones-because she has her own desire for vengeance against her father.