A Prince of the Blood

A king inclined contrary to nature.

A foreign-born queen confined to the palace.

A kingdom desperately needing an heir.

Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half-brother, to impregnate the queen. His sense of duty to the kingdom sends him to her bedchamber, where he finds Queen Lilera to be a woman of both beauty and intellect, deserving a far better fate.

But secretly fathering the heir to the throne is just the beginning. Under attack from all sides, Keladon must battle a conspiracy of magic and murder threatening the kingdom's survival — and the woman he comes to love.