Talia of the Tenth never expected to claim a warrior’s mantle, but when treachery steals her brother’s life, she enters the deadly Tournament of Gold in his place—and wins. Now bound to a powerful Divh and named leader of the Thirteenth House, she must defend the Protectorate from an encroaching war while navigating dangerous alliances and unexpected betrayals.

A slightly steamy secret romance set in the Irish Wolves World, about a gardener with an overprotective family and a Scottish ex-Royal Marine with a dangerous past.

Catriona misses the days when wilting gardenias and the unrequited love of her brother’s best friend were the worst of her problems. That all changes when she adds attempted kidnapping and being hit by a car to her résumé of woes.

Catriona MacGregor may look like a wee redheaded Scottish fairy, but a precious pixie she is not. At only twenty-two, she does two things well and with absolute dedication—moon over a man who still sees her as a little kid and run her own nursery with an iron-green thumb. Her life is routine until a string of bad luck wraps its unlucky arms around her.

From acclaimed author Elizabeth Essex comes the adventurous first book in the Highland Brides, a quartet of bold, brilliant lasses determined to make their own happily ever afters.