Shadows of Destiny

In Saranre, her life is doomed to be nothing more than council chambers and her mother's expectations.On the surface, she finds a family she never expected. Rion, a Rith'yar watched too closely for a heritage he never asked for, is guarded and skeptical of everyone until Kiera saves his sister Lyra from a pair of thugs in a dark alley and proves she's not like the rest. And Gareth's steady counsel gives her more than a place in the Bard Guild.When Lyra goes missing, swallowed into a trafficking ring that runs far deeper than anyone suspects, Kiera will have to cross a sorceress named Asharis, whose cruelty is only the beginning of what she's willing to do to get what she wants.She left the sea to find a life of her own choosing. Now she has to choose what she's willing to lose to keep it.Shadows of Destiny is the first step in the Shadows to Shores series, where one woman's fight to save the people she loves becomes the making of the leader she never meant to be.