SOLVED. Adult fantasy, woman with powers to control men but feels pain in hair when cut. [s]

[Ana]

I remember reading a book in the early 2000’s that was super long (about 1,000 + pages) with very small letters, kind of like a bible. It had a hard cover. I don’t remember how it looked, but I think it was the second book of a trilogy.
What I remember about this book is that there were 2 main characters, a man and a woman. The woman was a sort of priestess that had magical powers and could get men to do her bidding (became mindless slaves) but she would loose her powers if her hair was cut, and it hurt her a lot if it was cut. I think the guy was learning at a magical academy and was aiming to become a powerful sorcerer.
Now, the rest of the details are spoilers, so read at your own risk:



From what I can remember (the part of the story with the woman), the woman was involved in some sort of war and had to fight for freedom. At one point, she goes into battle naked with body paint and on a horse to take the enemy by surprise (which works). I believe there was also a bad guy that was able to enter her dreams and I think he raped her in one of those dreams.
Later on in the book, she gets captured and the bad guys cut her hair. She loses her powers and is thrown in a dungeon with criminals who are instructed to do whatever they want with her except kill her. When she is about to be raped, she finds her powers inside herself and is able to make the strongest guy her slave, who protects her from the rest of the criminals in the dungeon. She escapes, and thinks the main guy (the one she loves) is dead, so she orders her slave to go to her bedroom (she needs to make children to pass on her power, but doesn’t care with whom anymore because her loved one is supposedly dead), but then her loved one appears (turns out he survived).

As for the part with the guy main character, I can’t remember much about him. I think he goes into a school of magic to become powerful, and it turns out the master of the magic academy is evil or something. There might have been a dragon there too? I also think he was tortured but he was able to escape the pain by separating his souls from his body.

I hope this info was helpful and thanks for trying to help me find this book again. <3

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Ana, did you move this to Solved and put "Stone of Tears" in the topic box?

[Ana]

Yeah, a friend remembered the name of the book and told me. Did I do something wrong?

[Kris]

Thanks for marking your request as Solved. Next time, please post a comment to let us know that you found your book. Sometimes people put their request in the wrong folder. This way we'll know for sure.

[Ana]

Kris wrote: "Thanks for marking your request as Solved. Next time, please post a comment to let us know that you found your book. Sometimes people put their request in the wrong folder. This way we'll know for ..."

Ok will do, thanks for the heads up.