The Zemkoska Chronicles
The Briar Crown
They say love conquers all… but can the conquered ever love the conqueror?
Twenty-five years ago, there was life. Twenty-five years ago, there was peace when the descendants of the dryads and naiads kept all life in balance. Until one fateful night when the Oderbergs invaded, executed the royal house of Domonov and took Domovnia for their own, ruling with an iron fist and an edict of fear.
Roslyn Pleveli, like most of the orphans of that night, wants revenge and an end to the persecution of her kind. Yet, even if the Domovnian’s use of magic was permitted, she wouldn’t be much help, able to command only a few lowly weeds. But everything changes when she saves the life of an injured young man in the forest not knowing it was the prince of the Oderbergs himself. Ordered to see to the rest of his treatment, Roslyn is snatched from her home and all that she loves by his soldiers.
Now, in the Oderberg stronghold, she has the chance to change things. With the royal family within her grasp all she has to do to free her people is kill them… but can she do it, or will something more powerful than revenge heal the wounds of the past?
Apple Seeds in the Snow
A pampered princess.
A killer king.
The seeds of ruin.
Now that her schooling is over, pampered princess, Ouna Domonov must turn her attentions to the needs of the realm; such as marrying a Waterborn Descendant of the Naiads to help uphold the Balance.
But she doesn’t want her hideous intended, nor her responsibilities. All she wants is to have fun with her best friend, who must soon face her own royal duties. As a last hurrah before the wedding bells sound, the friends head north for Vinterfest. There is just one problem: L’adu. The grumpy guardsman her betrothed has hired to protect his “interests”, seems intent on spoiling her fun and shielding her from the only man she deems worthy of her hand, the dashing King Olaf von Oderberg.
But when intentions are misconstrued, the merrymaking ends. Ouna’s freedom is under threat and the destruction of her country at stake. Can she put her naivety and prejudices aside to fight for what and who is truly important?
Where Golden Feathers Fall
The enemy are at the gates and the heir must be protected at all costs. The only problem is…she has vanished.
Princess Algaia Domonov’s world is turned upside down when she discovers she may not be the daughter of the dryads she always believed herself to be. As she ponders her possible new identity, enemy forces from the North reach the border, and conscription is enacted, calling on one able-bodied person from each family to fight…except for her own. Not seeing her status as a reason for exemption, Algaia flees the safety of the palace to join her subjects at war.
However, life in a military camp isn’t like the one she is used to and it is only her stubborn determination to protect her people and be worthy of the crown she will one day bear, that keeps her from shedding her hidden identity.
Attracting the cruel and uninvited attention of the camp Commander, forces her to form new alliances in order to survive. When the Captain of her scouting team takes on her punishment, feelings begin to brew between the more experienced soldier and the young princess. But no matter how right it feels, Algaia knows it is forbidden for a royal to fall in love with a human.
When training ends abruptly and the real war begins, could her desire to pave her own path mean the downfall of her country and the death of the man she loves? Or, will the hard lessons she has learnt beyond the palace walls, help her to save them all?
The Tidal Helm
How to save a dynasty: find the missing people, find the lost crown, and right the wrongs of the past.
The Briar Crown will soon receive a new owner, but Deyzi Domonov is determined not to let it claim her as its next victim. In order to do that, she needs to find its counterpart, the Tidal Helm.
But neither the helm nor the Waterborn population have been seen since the Fall of Eluha, when her great grandfather invaded the country, slaughtering the king and queen and ripping Domovnia apart. After finding her mother’s journal, Deyzi decides to fulfil the late Queen’s plans to excavate the only place they haven’t looked, the maze of canals and caves that lie beneath the length of the country.
With the help of a renowned explorer, Deyzi descends into a dangerous world in search of a lost civilization, certain that they possess the item she seeks. But digging up the past uncovers hard truths about her own family, her country and the true purpose of their mission.
Meanwhile, their guide in the watery underworld is torn between helping the woman - with hair like the sun he has never seen - and handing her over to his people to break the curse that binds them.
As her search for the truth becomes a battle of survival, Deyzi must dig deep to save not only herself, but the people and country she loves. But can she do it without a Waterborn by her side, or will this be the end of the Domonov dynasty once and for all?
Under the Chained Mountain
Disgraced and distraught, Margitte von Oderberg is walked down the aisle by her brother, the king, to marry a stranger. She is sentenced to obscurity, sent to the backwaters to wed a nobody. Something her pride as a princess cannot take.
Only her new husband isn’t a stranger, but someone who has loved her from afar for so long, he is willing to enter into a disastrous deal with the king to have her. Pay him with coal, gold and jewels dug from the mountains around from the ancestral Oderberg home until the birth of their first child. But there is a catch. No gold, no baby - no wife.
Desperate to be free of her brother’s hold, her new husband throws himself into mining, finding little that might appease the monarch, that is until Margitte receives a tip. With the gold flowing and her relationship blossoming it seems she is settling into her new life, until the king demands the impossible – that they mine the Holy Mountain, where the ice giant sleeps.
But when their marriage and the future of Bergam depends on magic, myth, and the dangers they hide, will Margitte and her husband truly be able to pay the price?