Khendia

Nylarn Lamanbhurg picked the wrong side in a war. And lost. His only hope of saving his lands, maintaining his position, and avoiding exile was allying with the victors of that war. To that end, he offered his daughter Raina’s hand in marriage to one of the most powerful clans in the winning camp: the Karkbhurgs. But House Karkbhurg only had one unmarried son: the brute who had killed the man Raina loved. The man she was set to marry. The man who haunted her dreams with memories of sweet words and even sweeter kisses. The man whose death she still mourned every day.

Allara desperately wants to be happy. But the world she inhabits is unyielding and keeps throwing obstacles in her path. Two run-ins with a prince seem to change that but she only finds herself exchanging one set of challenges for another.

Elizabeth Heaton, a bored CIA analyst, finally gets some career excitement when she’s sent to Houston to help catch and turn a Chinese spy working for a low-level defense contractor. She finds love on the job but her love life gets entangled with her assignment, leaving Elizabeth stuck in the middle.