He’ll give up his happiness to help his people – but can he give up his soulmate?

When Kem is called before the Shifter Council, he’s told he needs to marry to secure an alliance for them. There’s only one problem; a year ago he met a woman he can’t forget.

After meeting a mystery man a year ago, Lia has a secret. One that she can’t even tell her sister, Aella. When fate brings the two of them back together, even the most carefully laid plans get disrupted.

As the childhood companion of King Ditanu, Iltani never doubted her place in either his kingdom or his heart. Then duty called her away to complete her training.

Now, a woman grown and a sword-maiden to the goddess Ishtar, Iltani returns and takes up her sacred destiny to protect the royal line. But so much has changed. Ditanu most of all. The youth she knew is gone. A stoic, untouchable king now sits the throne. Does anything of their once deep bond survive?

Iltani must swiftly find her place in a court where cunning governors plot treason, trusted advisors orchestrate deceptions, and noblewomen seek to beguile King Ditanu using methods both fair and foul.

But the greatest threat of all is no mortal adversary. Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Underworld, desires to make Ditanu her consort and seize his kingdom for her own. If Iltani wishes to protect her king, she must fulfil her destiny…

And become… Queen of the Gryphons.