Cheryl Howe

Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero—is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can’t—or won’t—answer any questions. She won’t even tell them her name.

Once, she was my world. The only one I loved. Then it was all ripped away—including my freedom. Vengeance kept me alive. It paved every step, shaped every plot. Until I finally caught her. I learned that line between love and hate is wafer-thin. Where once my dreams were filled with revenge, now that I have her, all I think about is the intoxicating passion we once shared. But there's no turning back the events her capture has set into motion. It unravels a carefully constructed world, one where enemies surround me. Everyone, that is, except her.

As they learn about Gandrett’s captivity, Drew and Palvin drum up new allies in a rigorous attempt to free their queen, while in Phornes, Taghi and Mckenzie face the consequences of the prince’s foolish bargain. Struggling to defend the western capital of the shattered kingdom, Brax and Armand must make a tough decision before all of Sives falls under Raynar’s spell. But even with the forces they have gathered, the Human-Fae Alliance might not be enough to save Neredyn.

The Executioner Knights are back! Alexander de Sherrington seeks to marry a daughter of the great Christopher de Lohr (Rise of the Defender). But not if King John has anything to say about it! Alexander de Sherrington, the man affectionately referred to as "Sherry" by his friends, is off on the greatest adventure of his life...and his target is Lady Christin de Lohr. Lovely and vivacious, Christin is as head-strong as her mother but born with her father’s innate sense of politics.