Evon Desconse has spent most of his life at the vaunted Hero Academy. As Marla Shrike’s best friend, he has seen his share of adventure. How else could it be when Marla is prophesied to save the entire world?

Danger abounds in Dizhelim in these dark days, and he is better equipped than most to face it. But his true desire is to focus on his study of prophecy and magic. Up until now, battling monsters has been a necessary chore. He has been trained to be heroic, after all.

Lady Charity MacGalloway likes little dogs, long country walks, and summer cloudbursts, but she wants absolutely nothing to do with the Season or balls or the pompous heirs trolling the marriage mart. Her Ladyship also idolizes her sister-in-law duchess with whom she is secretly taking boxing lessons from champion, Harry Mansfield. Because the braw fighter is not a member of polite society, he poses no threat as a suitor and Charity exceedingly enjoys sparring with him both inside and outside the ring…until he inherits an earldom and ruins everything.

A swashbuckling adventure featuring Captain Morgan Wade, a notorious privateer and blockade-runner, who rescues, then kidnaps the daughter of the British governor of Barbados after she and her brother are shipwrecked. Summer Cambridge is betrothed to Wade's arch-enemy, Commodore Bennett Winfield, who will go to any lengths, even start a war between two countries to get her back.