In a world comprised of three rival kingdoms as different from each other as the families that rule them, Emariya Warren is unique in being a daughter of not one but two of the ruling families. Sixteen years ago, Emariya narrowly escaped dying on their cold estate floor beside her mother. Now, after learning her father has been captured, Emariya makes the desperate decision to follow in her mother's ill-fated footsteps and journey to marry the prince of a rival land, Torian Ahlen. But when Emariya discovers the secrets of the three families and an ominous prophecy warning the three bloodlines...

If what you do in life makes you who you are, then I would recommend going to war anytime Of course, that was just one of the things I've done in my life, and it only consumed one year of it- yet I feel changed by it. This book contains stories that I thought would be both interesting and hopefully entertaining, and because of that, - a military rarity. Now I know very well from both first-hand experience and second-hand learning that war is a terrible thing Nobody wins People die in war; there's no way around it. It shouldn't happen, and it probably wouldn't if we sent each of the...

Chelsea Arnold is not a Chadwell, as her mother incessantly reminds her. And if she doesn't learn to play the game, she'll never see a dime of her new step-daddy's money. So Chelsea puts on the act and dutifully follows the Chadwell family rules: everyone has to work in the family bar to learn life lessons. Little do they know, she already knows the biggest lesson of all: the best thing to be is underestimated. Then they'll never see you coming. And in a few more weeks when she's tucked enough cash away, she'll be out of here, leaving her new family and her washed-up mother behind, because...