Discover the World of Amazed
Where the king will do anything bring magic to the land…
A Kingdom of Warring Clans…
In the world of the Awakened, where Seidon has rulesd in Daryatla for centuries and both Daryatla and Fjordlandi have been given gifts of new magic in addition to the traditional power over water, one kingdom remains without any gift.
Ellas. The kingdom of warring clans, and of kings who must win the Laurel Crown by proving both their intelligence and their superiority in battle.
Aziza, Archa of Clan Ares
Aziza is the most elite warrior in all of Clan Ares.
Aziza Kallis has done the unthinkable–she’s won the title of Archa of all of Clan Ares, a title usually reserved for a woman twice her age. She shouldn’t have competed so young, that’s what her detractors say…but Aziza knows she is the best warrior among Aresian women. She’s undefeated in their town’s weekly sparring matches, not only against the women, but even against the men. She excels at battle strategy. She has dedicated herself fully and completely to all that makes Clan Ares the best clan in Ellas, and she has pledged her loyalty to Ares and to the king.
And that king is paying attention.
When the king’s blood-takers arrive in her hometown to collect the samples from all child-bearing women to see if anyone, when matched with the king, could produce a magical child, she’s dubious at best, not even sure she believes in this strange magic that rules the rest of the world. But when a supernatural encounter rocks her world, everything she thought she knew is radically changed, and Aziza’s course, all she worked so hard for, is abruptly changed.
But who will she be when she’s no longer Ares’s most elite female warrior?
Stefanos will do anything to bring magic to Ellas…
King Stefanos
Stefanos set the kingdom on its head when he won the Laurel Crown thirteen years ago at age seventeen, though no one was surprised when he successfully defended his reign at twenty-seven. Now, he’s universally acknowledged as the most intelligent man not only in Ellas, but likely in the world. And he has one goal: Awaken magic in Ellas.
He’s willing to do anything–absolutely anything–to achieve it. He was willing to play the villain when an Accord with Fjordlandi was scorned and his promised magical wife refused to honor the agreement her father had made. And it turned out better than expected, when he ended up with the Fjordic Machine that can scientifically predict magic-producing matches. So now, he’ll marry a stranger in order to bring magic to his people.
Because if he fails, he has reason to believe the whole world will pay the price.
But not everyone in Ellas is as eager for magic as the king. There are those who think it the greatest evil and who have been working for centuries to keep magic from arising among Ellesians.
And when these two groups clash,
they may start the war Stefanos is trying to prevent.
Princess Iraja
In the midst of the turmoil surrounding Stefanos’s selection of a bride to help him produce a magical child, visitors arrive from Daryatla. Prince Bleu brings his wife, Iraja, to bathe in Ellas’s famed mineral pools…the only thing that can help ease the pain of the Desert’s Kiss, a lung disease that will kill her. Because while Bleu is Awakened, one of only two people in the world with dual power over both water and wind, Iraja is not. A native of Soltierra, she grew up the best friend of the woman now the Sun Queen, but she has no magic in her blood. Nothing to save her, just as she had no way of staying young, like her husband. Which means she has only months left to live.
And lives still to change before she dies.
Prince Bleu of Daryatla
A childhood friend who could be more…
Aziza has long been in love with her best friend, Galenos…who has been waiting to declare himself until he knew if he’d be asked to join the king’s most elite guard, the hoplites. But if he goes, if he asks her to join him, it would mean giving up all she worked for…and if he doesn’t ask her, how will he live with the regrets?
Galenos Ariti of Clan Ares
And sparks continue to fly…
between Daemon, the Aflame who agreed to spend the next few years in Ellas being studied, and Perla, the usually-buoyant princess who isn’t about to let the gruff man who caught her eye in Fjordlandi escape so easily…especially when she desperately needs him to do what she can’t and make sure her brother has a friend as he grieves his wife’s diagnosis.
The workings of a Machine…or of Theos Elyon?
It’s a Machine’s results that throw them together. A king’s dictate that rewrites her world.
And her uncompromising determination to do what’s right once she learns the truth about the god she’d always served and who she should have been serving instead
that will shake a kingdom to its core.
Book 3 of the Awakened Series,
will leave you
Amazed.
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. Having successfully launched two homeschool grads, she now spends her time writing fiction, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years, as well as a fantasy series and contemporary mysteries and romances. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.