The Burden of Royals

Royal Duty, the first book in The Burden of Royals trilogy, is now out into the world! 

Cynthia is my first heroine within the enchanted races world who is already immersed in the supernatural world, which meant I had to write things a bit differently. For the first two trilogies, the heroines discover the supernatural world basically as the readers do. For this one, Cynthia already knows everything, which meant I needed a different way to explain information to readers. 

I think writing a heroine brand new to this world might be easier than one already in it, but it was fun to have that different dynamic within the story! As for what this story is about: 

Soon Cynthia must choose who among her marriage candidates will stand by her side and help her lead the sorcerer race. Too bad the one she wants isn’t interested—in ruling or in her.

Cynthia’s fate has always been to marry one of the marriage candidates picked out by her father from the top sorcerer families, and the time is soon coming for her to choose. But the one she wants, Jayden Beckett, hates politics . . . and maybe her too. Resigned to marrying someone she doesn’t love, she leaves for a human college—alone—to gather her thoughts and make her choice.

Which works great until a vampire coven leader comes along insisting she hand over a list of all sorcerers with vampire blood. Which, rumor has it, includes Jayden. Unwilling to betray any of her people to another race, Cynthia scrambles to counter the threats from the vampires with a new alliance unheard of among the enchanted races—the werewolves.

Though there’s a growing number of sorcerers in the background unhappy with Cynthia’s method of ruling who don’t appreciate her risking the vampires’ wrath for the sake of mixed bloods. And this might just be enough to tip them into rebelling against the ruling sorcerer family.

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