Lord of Light (Sons of Tyras #2)

He is everything she was taught to fear. She is everything he is forbidden to have. How can there possibly be a future for them?

Brez Elathean's sister has become a fugitive from their people. He means to leave no stone unturned in finding her, hoping beyond hope she can be restored. His success is a matter of family honor, loyalty to the throne he is pledged to, and to his king. But in his search, he did not count on meeting the Ardeal maid, Klari Marisel, a woman of common blood who is forbidden to him, a woman who tempts him as no other―a woman who belongs to an ancient warrior society that hunts down and destroys even the innocent of his blood-kind. Why does this warrior maid have his sister’s erdiruen stone? Has his sister fallen into the hands of this dangerous sect? What does Klari know about it? Brez is determined to find out.

The last thing Klari Marisel wants, is the marriage her parents are determined to bind her to. It will mean giving up her ambition to join the highest order of the ancient, and secret, Velandian warriors that she has belonged to since she was a child. It will mean giving up being a Velandian at all, taken too far from home by her unknowing husband to play the docile wife, never to even speak of her society to him, never to speak of, much less practice, her science-crafts again. Her only hope rests in the powerful stone that has recently come into her possession.
But now the mysterious Moldavian Lord, Brez Elathean, has suddenly shown up, enthralling her family into accepting him. Is he one of the evil ones she is trained to fight, trying to deceive and disarm her with his charm? Has he come for the precious stone that may determine her future? When Klari sees him fight another of his kind, with alarming powers that surely prove what he is―and just how dangerous―she determines to kill him before he can harm her family. But Lord Elathean has other ideas, and Klari soon finds herself struggling with the question, just what sort of being is he? And how can he have such a hopeless hold on her heart?