Fiction
Book One – Scandal
Lt. Helen Andros is a mixed-race outcast in Azgard. Saved from death when her true parentage comes to light, she now faces the outrage of the overclass, the lethal hostility of the mighty Temple of Kronos — and a powerful, high-ranked father she neither knows nor trusts.
Steering a volatile personal journey with her stranger parent, Helen is stalked. Will a hidden menace — the deadly Stoneslayer — plunder the mysterious green gem she inherited from her mother? Will political necessity bind her in marriage to a man she does not love and who cannot love her back?
Helen found it easy to look death in the eyes. Dying was effortless. It was living that had always been a struggle. Why had she, orphaned and despised, ever bothered to try so hard? What had been the point of battling every inch of the way for a medical degree? To this miserable end?
The strange red glow filled her inner vision. Giving up! That’s more like it. We will meet soon on the other side, and you will suffer for depriving me all these years of what is rightfully mine.
Reviews
***** (Five Stars)
“If you are interested in high fantasy, political drama, and social issues, then this book should be right up your alley.”
–Sean Patrick Tracy
OnlineBookClub.org
**** (Four Stars)
“Scandal is excellent high fantasy…Talmadge constructs an immersive world, and her political intrigue rivals anything from Game of Thrones.”
–Alana Maple
Reedsy Discovery
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