Asherah doesnât want much. A former slave, she wants to live out her days in peace and enjoy her hard-won freedomâĻthen she learns that Parthalanâs king, Sahlgren, ordered not only her enslavement, but that of thousands more. Naturally, she starts a rebellion, but while she has a quick mind and a strong sword arm, she lacks both the funds and the soldiers to make her rebellion a success.
Enter Lormac, the elf king of the north. Heâs quickly captivated by Asherah and agrees to fund her rebellion. Whatâs more, he wants to make Asherah his queenâĻ but is that what Asherah wants?
Caolânir was born to be a warrior, and he canât think of a worse way to spend his life. He goes through the motions of his role as an elite temple guardâuntil Alluria arrives. Sheâs a priestess from the east, and Caolânir can think of nothing but her bright eyes and soft voiceâand the fact that he took an oath to defend the priestessâs chastity.
Rules never much bothered Caolânir, and he searches for a way to be with Alluria. Then a priestess is attacked, and another is murdered, and Caol'nir realizes that Alluria isnât safe in the temple. When Caolânir learns that King Sahlgren himself is responsible for these atrocities, Caol'nir heads north and joins Asherah's rebellion.
What Caol'nir doesn't know is that Sahlgren has promised the demon lord a woman of rare and singular beauty, a woman whose magical abilities are rumored to rival the sun godâsâĻa woman Caolânir knows all too well.
HEIR TO THE SUN â Book One of the Chronicles of Parthalan
Jennifer Allis Provost writes books about faeries, orcs and elves. Zombies too. She grew up in the wilds of Western Massachusetts and had read every book in the local library by age twelve. (It was a small library.) An early love of mythology and folklore led to her epic fantasy series, the Chronicles of Parthalan, and her day job as a cubicle monkey helped shape her urban fantasy, Copper Girl. When sheâs not writing about things that go bump in the night (and sometimes during the day) sheâs working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction.