Judy Hurd

In Duke Hamlyn's Murder, Elerren Demesne's army has aligned to invade Syharrill Demesne, as King Lynton is running short of patience to know his brother Prince Edwarren's fate.Syharrill's queen, Mariona, is desperate to avoid war. She sends Lady Keial to extricate Edwarren from Hallberk Castle's dungeon where Edwarren has been held for four months, accused of the murder of Duke Hamlyn. Lady Keial finds herself on the run with a very ill Edwarren.

On a rainy hiking weekend with friends in the Great Smoky Mountains, Eva Thom stepped into an alternate reality. Searching for her companions, she hid from two men in medieval garb hunting another man. When one hunter discovered her refuge and forced his way into it, Eva heard rumbling from deep in a throat. Daring a look back and down, she saw a sharp black face, chin flat to the earth, ears laid back, hot amber eyes that could turn the rain to steam. Black lips curled to reveal wet pink gums and sharp white teeth. Incredulous as it was, within the wolf, like a shadow under its dark, bloodied fur, she saw a man and knew what she was seeing was truth, a Daoine S dhe.

Standing at the graveside, Meg Taylor promised her husband's ghost she would continue on to Santa Fe with the wagon train. But fate had other aspirations for Meg when she crossed paths with the Arapaho-raised Army scout Tem Overmyer and became entangled in the revenge plotted against him by the Comanche war chief Naconah.