Jane Wiseman

Minstrel? Spy? Witch? What is Mirin, really?

She's a young girl. She's a boy. She loves her sister. She loves a man.

More important, who is she?

The gods have given her a task, to save a realm, to save a queen.

In a brutal world where the young are forced to grow up fast, Mirin's story is about coming of age too soon, about love and betrayal. It's...

Trained as a killer, Mirin had let herself believe she'd never need her dagger again. Just be what she seemed, a mild-mannered young wife.

But when everything is taken from her--the man she loves, the quiet life she's worked for, her child, her very identity--she knows she has to fight for what's hers, with the weapons she knows best: The...

Keera has one goal—avenging her parents—and boundless confidence. After all, her magic is second to none, the Child of Fire's true gift. With outrage, she discovers her powers have been stripped from her. When she finds she must fight her battle with only her wits and her grit, how can she prevail? She is young and has no war-skills.

But the girl...