When seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, she looks forward to a reunion with her father, who is a commanding general, seeing her handsome fiancMorgan once more, and exploring the strange new country. What she finds is entirely different. Although the Chiarizzi appear to tolerate the invading army, rebels have already tried to destroy them; Morgan is not the man she thought he was; and she finds herself falling in love with Lieutenant Ket Du'kai, who himself comes from a conquered society. Can the irrepressible Averie remake herself in this new world? Sharon Shinn's newest romance has an epic sweep, piquant humor, social commentary, and love to sparejust the thing when you want to lose yourself in another world.

In her latest romance, the author of "The Safe-Keepers Secret" has created a story with an epic sweep, piquant humor, social commentary, and love to spare--just the thing for young women who want to lose themselves in another world.

Sharon Shinn lives near St. Louis, Missouri.