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Title: Reign & Ruin

Series: Mages of the Wheel, Book 1

Author: J.D. Evans

Genre: Epic Fantasy

About Reign & Ruin:

“All magic is beautiful,” she said, “and terrible. Do you not see the beauty in yours, or the terror in mine? You can stop a heart, and I can stop your breath.”

 

She is heir to a Sultanate that once ruled the world. He is an unwanted prince with the power to destroy.

 

She is order and intellect, a woman fit to rule in a man’s place. He is chaos and violence and will stop at nothing to protect his people.

 

His magic answers hers with shadow for light. They need each other, but the cost of balance may be too high a price. Magic is dying and the only way to save it is to enlist mages who wield the forbidden power of death, mages cast out centuries ago in a brutal and bloody war.

 

Now, a new war is coming. Science and machines to replace magic and old religion.

 

They must find a way to save their people from annihilation and balance the sacred Wheel—but first, they will have to balance their own forbidden passion. His peace for her tempest, his restlessness for her calm…

 

Night and day, dusk and dawn, the end, and the beginning.

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Excerpt:

“But you’ll deliver the message to the Agassi,” Samira said, slyly, “so you can look at him.”

Naime glared sideways at her. “I am allowed to look,” she said crisply. She wasn’t the only one. She had witnessed her attendants and other women in the receiving hall staring or failing at their attempts not to. Half of it was because he looked a great deal different than anyone else, with the Odokan lineage evident in his features. Some of it was because he was a new face. But the simple fact was the man was darkly handsome and magnetic. And a great deal more pleasant to look at than anyone else in the palace.

“Yes, but I’m not certain I’ve ever seen you look with quite so much…dedication.” Samira laughed when Naime bumped into her in rebuke.

“I find him interesting,” Naime said. “He is easy to speak with. Besides, even you must find him worth looking at?”

Samira gave the small, sad smile she did when her heart wasn’t in it, and Naime regretted mentioning it at all. A Fifth House mage’s love was often consuming, and that was true of Samira, even if the person she loved did not deserve her and was forever out of reach.

“He thinks you’re worth looking at as well,” Samira changed the subject, her honey eyes crinkling at the corners. “He couldn’t take his eyes off you at the guild hall. You should have seen his face when you finished with the Grand Vizier.”

“I saw.” Warm, reluctant pride spread through her chest. Not because he looked at her, but because if felt as if he had actually seen her. Men looked at her. They always had. She knew she was beautiful, the way she knew she was a woman, and a princess. It was not something she took pride in, it was something to be used as a tool. Her mother had taught her that. She had also taught her it would be fleeting; that she must have other assets and tools at her disposal when the beauty inevitably faded, or risk losing her belief in herself, which was the only gift she truly had. He had recognized something other than her appearance, and that, in her experience, was rare.

 

 

About the Author:

J.D. Evans writes science fiction and fantasy romance and is the author of the novel, Reign & Ruin. After earning her degree in linguistics, J.D. served a decade as an army officer. She once spent her hours putting together briefings for helicopter pilots and generals. Now she writes stories, tends to a tiny human, knits, sews badly, gardens, and cultivates Pinterest Fails. After a stint in Beirut, J.D. fell in love with the Levant, which inspired the setting for her debut series, Mages of the Wheel.

J.D. currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, though she will always be a Montana girl at heart.

 

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