Heart and Hand
4 primary works
Book 1
Fate Promised Love, but Duty Had Other Plans
Both healer and warrior, nothing will stop Lady Aubrianne from protecting the people she loves. Together with her closest friends, she labors to find the reason behind her nefarious husband’s frequent absences. They fear the worst and race against time to avoid being implicated in his treacherous acts.
Larkin, a Royal Guard of Aurelia and second-born noble son, tires of his rakish ways. He craves adventure and jumps at the chance to investigate the increasingly wealthy Lord Roger and his dealings with a rival realm. In Aurelia, there’s only one punishment for treason: death to all involved—including the woman who has haunted his dreams for years.
With ambition, murder, and sizzling romance, Wild Lavender delivers! The first book of the Heart & Hand Series introduces a sweeping fantasy epic, one that spans realms, a mystical prophecy, and royal intrigue.
Book 2
To save a kingdom, she must first sacrifice everything.
Lady Claire is the brightest addition to the queen’s retinue, but she hides a secret that could change the fabric of Aurelia: the ability to foretell another’s fate. Her curse has only brought her sorrow, and because of it, she vows never to give away her heart.
Trian, a shy Aurelian Guard, has fallen hard for Claire, and when King Godwin assigns him to escort her across the realm, he hopes to change her mind.
He may be the one person who is immune to her powers, and friendship takes hold. Trian teaches her his unique way of seeing the world, and Claire tutors him in the healing arts. She realizes too late that she has done that which she promised she would never do: she falls in love.
Her greatest fear is realized when Trian is knocked down by deadly quarrels. The assassins transport Claire far from Aurelia to the foreign lands of Nifolhad, a kingdom where spies listen to every whisper. To survive, she must ally herself with the powerful women from the Fenrhi Temple, some who possess the same unwanted power as she. Their customs and secrets seduce her, while plots and machinations drag her into the very heart of the battle for Nifolhad’s throne.
But help comes from unexpected places, and if Claire ever hopes to return to Aurelia and to those she loves, she must finally embrace her curse as a gift.
Book 3
She trusts him with her life, but can she trust him with her heart?
Princess Anwyl from Nifolhad has finally met the man she is fated to love, only, he doesn’t return the sentiment. Politics and civil war throw her under his protection, and they flee from her home and journey to his realm. Tasked by her queen and king, she becomes an ambassadress in the Aurelian Royal Court. But her true mission—weeding out the rogue Nifolhadian infiltrators bent on destroying all she holds dear—is a secret she must not divulge.
Rakish Lord Warin wants nothing more to do with the headstrong princess, and he fights against his growing attraction toward her. She’ll not get him what he truly desires—a wife, a home, and children to love. Besides, he doesn’t trust her…not since he spent time in Nifolhad, and she somehow tampered with his memories. Worse, he believes her to be complicit in the disappearance of his cousin.
Anwyl quickly becomes a trusted friend and advisor to the Aurelian queen. But in Nifolhad, plots and assassination attempts run rampant, and threats against the princess abound. To remove her as a pawn, she is ordered to marry an Aurelian noble. The queen of Aurelia, a true romantic, sends Anwyl on a tour around the realm to seek out a husband, and Warin is to be her escort!
As Anwyl meets prospective suitors, she and Warin uncover a Nifolhadian plot to overthrow the Aurelian king and queen, one centered on implicating Warin’s family. Worse, they come to realize that there are greater forces of nature at work, forces that threaten all of the known realms.
Only by coming together can Princess Anwyl and Lord Warin protect their families, their realms, and each other. But first, they must achieve the impossible—they must trust in one another.
Book 4
