Drowned Empire
4 primary works • 6 total works 7 total works planned
Book 0.5
In this prequel novella from Rhyan's POV, we find out what happened in Bamaria three years before Daughter of the Drowned Empire when Imperator Hart came to visit on the summer solstice.
19-year-old Lord Rhyan Hart is a noble who hates his station and hates his title even more. He can't stand anything that ties him to the man who's caused most of his nightmares and abuse. His father. , and just about everything in his life. The last thing he wants to do is spend the summer traveling across the Lumerian Empire to its other end with his father. But when he arrives, he sees Lady Lyriana Batavia for the first time in nine years.
Book 1
Cleopatra meets Throne of Glass in this stunning fantasy debut.
19-year-old mage Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic.
Lyr’s own cousin was executed for wielding the wrong kind. And for years, Lyr has sworn to protect her older sisters, helping them conceal their own illicit magic.
But when Lyr must participate in the ceremony that reveals her power, she uncovers something else entirely. Something that means banishment from the Empire.
Faced with death in exile, and leaving her sisters behind, Lyr has no choice but to accept a deadly contract. She has seven months to train as a warrior and pass the Emperor’s brutal test of strength, without magic.
But when she’s forced to train with Lord Rhyan Hart, the man she’s secretly loved since she was a girl—a feared warrior in exile himself, forbidden to her in every way—she’s in danger of losing far more than her family, life, and country.
Rebel forces, and an invading army, are destabilizing Bamaria, just as her family’s secrets threaten to reveal themselves.
Surviving the training, and saving her sisters may mean sacrificing her own heart.
Book 1.5
A Treacherous Oath
Lord Rhyan Hart, Heir Apparent to the Arkasva, High Lord of Glemaria, Imperator to the North, has carried the weight of his title his entire life. But never has he felt it more than now.After sacrificing everything to protect the girl he loves, a shocking revelation endangers her again. The consequences stretch across the Empire and increase his father's power over him. Rhyan struggles to fight back, and protect his loved ones, but rising threats force new oaths to be sworn-oaths that could ruin everything.
A Deadly Tournament
As the anniversary of the Imperator's rule approaches, he resurrects one of Glemaria's deadliest soturion traditions: the Alissedari. Soturi must enter the arena on gryphon back in a fight to the death. Rhyan knows he has no choice but to win, no matter the cost to his heart or soul.
A Forbidden Love
When evil invades Glemaria, the lines between friend and foe are blurred. Rhyan has always lived by his oaths. But the only way he can fulfill one oath is to forswear another, and the only way to save a life is to take someone else's. How can Rhyan tear the final rope apart to protect the girl he loves when he's not even sure what it means to be a soturion anymore, and every step he takes towards his love puts her in more danger?
Book 2
Now that Lyr has survived the Imperator's cruel punishment, she has only three months to prepare for the test that will decide her fate. Despite Rhyan's promise of additional training, her life has never been in more danger.
Enemies known and unknown get closer every day. While the Imperator's soldiers occupy the city, the Emartis rebels grow bolder, marking Lyr as their target.
Staying safe means more time under Rhyan's protection. But the closer they become, the more their desire ignites, the harder it becomes to resist temptation.
Secrets can only remain hidden for so long. Even ones Lyr bled for.
As new threats arrive at the Bamarian border, Lyr delves deeper into solving the mystery of her power. But revealing these secrets and surviving the Emperor's test may cost Lyr more than she can bargain for.
Loyalty will be tested. Lines will be crossed. Ancient promises will be reforged.
And most dangerous of all: as passion burns, oaths will be broken.
Book 3
Blindsided by their aunt’s betrayal and stripped of the protections of their station, Lyr and her sisters’ only hope of survival is to throw themselves into the dark intrigue of the Bamarian Court. As Meera and Morgana struggle to hide their illegal magic while living amongst their enemies, Lyr uncovers long-buried secrets from her mother that may finally unlock her power.
But the Imperators are determined to set decades-long plans into motion, with Lyr’s true identity placing her at the center of their game.
As Morgana’s magic intensifies to its breaking point, she comes face to face with the Lumerian Empire’s most insidious secret—one that threatens her and Meera’s lives.
To save her sisters, Lyr must escape Bamaria with Rhyan. Though they’re being hunted by demons and tracked across borders by the Empire’s forces, they’re determined to solve the puzzle Lyr’s mother left behind. But claiming Lyr’s power may not be enough as an ancient evil returns to Lumeria.
Book 4
Cleopatra meets Fourth Wing in this delicious binge-worthy and heart-wrenching romantasy!
Book four in the Drowned Empire series.
The Guardians have returned.
As Moriel's reincarnation nears, Lyr is determined to fulfil her oath: harness the power of the red shard and defeat him.
But Lyr has uncovered the Empire's darkest secret - her cousin Jules still lives and the Emperor is enslaving vorakh for their forbidden magic. Now, she's vowed to bring the Empire to its knees.
But freeing the realm will require more power than even Lyr and Rhyan combined possess. Their only opportunity is to make a far more sinister deal with the person who has the most to gain - and the person Rhyan trusts the least.
To protect her loved ones, Lyr must master her magic or risk unleashing destruction across the Empire. It could cost her everything - her heart. And soul.
THE TROPES! DAUGHTER OF THE DROWNED EMPIRE features: secret lovers, love triangle, star-crossed souls, forced proximity, apprentice/tutor forbidden romance, who did this to you I'll murder them, right person wrong time, she fell first but he fell harder, I would burn the world down for you, two love-interests fighting for her heart.