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Calamitous menace looms over Queen Rejeena and her queen's man Aarvan. Will Queen Tabarana, their corrupt and conflict-proven mortal enemy, be chosen Great Queen of Kriiscon? This danger forces Rejeena to place her name in contention for the position. Can she defeat Tabarana? Rejeena's public stance granting men, now slaves, certain rights gravely undermines her possibilities. Radical, traditional queens, with choices to cast, view her changes as traitorous.Complicating this hazard, a coalition of mainland leaders demands the new great queen join them to discuss male slavery on the island, the men's obvious goal-end it. How can Kriiscon retain her female-dominated culture and still satisfy these leaders, whose aggregate military forces can crush them?During the required travel, Rejeena's guards must maintain diligent vigil against Ishtabarra. The queen's greedy outlaw cousin skulks always in the background, seeking opportunity to slay Rejeena and claim her queenship.Eclipsing all else, the queen's traveling contingent accidentally invades a hundreds-strong enclave of glaalets. Aggressive and territorial, the gigantic legendary monsters threaten to slaughter the entire party. Can Rejeena's queenly influence and Aarvan's fighting ability combine to avert disaster-or will their lives end and all their efforts to save their beloved Kriiscon come to naught on a treacherous snowy mountaintop?

Queen Rejeena and her queen's man Aarvan face ominous threats. The Great Queen of Kriiscon is dead. Rejeena's mortal enemy and Aarvan's carnal stalker, Queen Tabarana-an abomination, selfish, cruel and manipulative-looms as the obvious successor. Rejeena and Aarvan must fashion a clever political maneuver to deny Tabarana this exalted, powerful position.Complicating their efforts, a flashflood forces a face-to-face meeting between Queen Rejeena and Jannsen of the Caana. Though avowed foes, they agree to discourse. Opposing views of Kriiscon, women ruling and men slaves, brought to light and laid bare, challenged and defended, sharp tongues replacing slicing steel.Treason compounds Rejeena's problems. Did Shabet, Rejeena's long-time friend and captain, reverse her loyalty? Captain Locin, Aarvan's protector, conspires to reveal a definitive pointer to Shabet's guilt. Which captain will the queen believe? If she doesn't choose wisely, guiltless lives will be lost.Aarvan confronts his own disaster. A catastrophic event hurls him backward in memory where he will unearth lost truths, discover the origin of his inner beast. Will that savage monster support him as he faces new dangers or consume him, eradicating the honest, steadfast man he has become?Together, Rejeena and Aarvan must seek a path to save them and their island from devastation.

Queen Rejeena and her partner, Aarvan, are besieged by powerful enemies who seek to oust them from poweror worse. Standing together, they strive to triumph over the attacks and end the culture of cruel bigotry on the island of Kriiscon.Rejeenas unprecedented new laws create intense upheaval. The laws oppose centuries of tradition, nullifying practices women consider to be their right. Other queens are furious; the great queen, outraged.Aarvan invents his own problems. By interfering with the sport of a group of loose fellows who then turn their wrathful attention to him, he allows a huge mysterious creature to escape. The creaturepossibly the mythical glaaletrepays the queens man by biting his arm to the bone, leaving Aarvan shocked and with a lasting scar.Meanwhile, to regain her control of the queens inner circle, Captain Shabet conspires to slay Aarvan. After several inexplicable assaults that occur against the man she loves, Rejeena begins to suffer serious, private doubts about her always-loyal captain.The great queen demands a staff-level paaerta hunt, and Rejeena must attendan encounter to punish the young queen for her effrontery. Rejeena and Aarvan come face-to-face with top hierarchy betrayaldeadly revengeand an amoral demon determined to kill.

Separated by time, distance, and treachery, Queen Rejeena of the island of Kriiscon and her queens man, Aarvan, each battle lethal difficulties and agonize over the well-being of the other. Aarvan had escaped the outlaws and survived his dangerous midnight oceanic swim. Now he encounters confrontations with antagonist groups, women who desire to hold him for ransom, loose men who want his pants to decorate their kill wall, and a mysterious stranger. Hunted and afoot, a lengthy journey challenges himand time is not his friend.Though inexperienced and lacking knowledge, Rejeena engages in a battle of wits with proficient Mainland negotiators. She must disallow a complete rout of vital Kriisconian interests at a pivotal trade conference. She also must face the daunting choice of disenholding Aarvan, her soul mate, which would allow his return to the Mainland, or lose him to a harsh, arrogant queen. Rejeena knows nothing of a deadly plan already launched to end the lives of her and her unborn daughters.Can Aarvan return to prevent the murderous scheme? The couple struggle with fate and hostile powers in this race against time to rejoin forces and to save each other, their daughters, and the island of Kriiscon.

The deceit and conspiracies against Queen Rejeena of the island of Kriiscon and her queen?s man, Aarvan, continue. She carries twin daughters, and their newfound, tentative peace is threatened from all sides. The great queen would wrest Aarvan from Rejeena and grant him to a spiteful queen. Rejeena must find a lawful way to derail their repulsive plot. Rejeena?s trusted guard captain, Shabet, conspires with Ishtabarra, Rejeena?s cousin and outlaw archenemy to kidnap Aarvan. With him ousted, Shabet regains her power and status within the queen?s inner circle. Unwittingly, she also opens the path for Ishtabarra to slay Rejeena and usurp her queenship. Rejeena is forced into the role of chief negotiator during a trade conference with the most powerful leader from the mainland. But will her inexperienced diplomatic skills destroy Kriiscon or save the island from monetary plunder? Betrayed, captured, and imprisoned by women who would strip him of his status as queen?s man and use him for their lustful ends, Aarvan must escape to save Rejeena and their unborn daughters. He alone knows of a nefarious assassination scheme, which Shabet cannot counter. But can he escape and return in time?

Dire new threats face Queen Rejeena of Kriiscon and Aarvan, her queen’s man. Once again, they must battle treacherous forces determined to separate and destroy them.Queen Tabarana, favored ally of Great Queen Annannear, lusts for the delectable Aarvan. Determined to wrest him from Rejeena, she will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. Rejeena must outwit and challenge Tabarana without causing a reign of retaliation upon Rejeena’s quarter.The sinister cousin of Rejeena—outlaw leader Ishtabarra—desires to separate Aarvan from his queen and places a hefty bounty on his head even as her assassins stalk Rejeena.Aarvan must locate the hidden escape route of imprisoned outlaws to save the lives of seven honorable women, unjustly accused of outlaw affiliation. He knows a route out of those cells also can create access to the queen for Ishtabarra’s murderous forces.Animosity between Aarvan and Shabet, captain of the queen’s guard, deepens into hatred. To regain her former prominence and control, Shabet secretly gathers supporters and conspires to oust the queen’s man.How can Rejeena retain her queen’s man against so much opposition? How can Aarvan continue to secure his queen’s safety from her predatory cousin? The odds are overwhelming, and the two lovers must use every resource available to them if they are to survive.