Brutal Worlds

fantasy ⁕ dark fantasy ⁕ low fantasy

Three women with wildly different destinies battle bloody odds for love and peace in the kingdom of the wolf.

Book 1

Prisoners

A revolution two decades in the making.

Janessa Labaster plays her part well. Serving as Viceroy Philip’s wife, she savors castle comforts and carries out his orders. When a prisoner in the dungeon demands to see her by a name her husband forbade twenty years ago, Janessa’s façade threatens to crack.

Philip’s closest allies, now her most treacherous enemies, lurk around every corner. Janessa struggles to keep her composure where one slip could throw her into worse danger than she’s ever escaped. With friends past and present filling her mind, Janessa must choose between her safety and a greater legacy. If she chooses wrong, Philip will unleash his bloodiest retaliation and snuff out the last resurgence of what she once believed in.

Book 2

Fenwick and the Princess

Most of what she treasured in the world was wrapped up in that one girl.

In the wake of a bloody uprising, King Ulric hires the reputable but mysterious Fenwick to protect his beloved daughter, Princess Hayden. Fenwick plans for the most important mission of her storied career, guarding Hayden far from any siege the rebels might launch against the castle. Fenwick swears to keep her relationship with Hayden strictly professional, but the princess’ interest in her tests Fenwick on every level. To cross the king’s line would surely end her career if not her life.

When immediate danger plunges the women into unthinkable violence, Fenwick bets their freedom on every skill she’s ever earned. No longer fighting for gold but something much more precious, Fenwick aims to take down their enemies and the insidious threat beyond. The courses of their lives stand forever altered. Fenwick accepts her duty to her country, but above all, she vows to shield Hayden from anyone who acts against them, no matter how powerful they might be.