The Queen's Lover (A Hend and Yurt Companion Story)

By Odessa Lynne

In The King’s Guard, Ithera D'oH of Hend married the Prince of Yurt and became Queen of all of Hend and Yurt for the sake of her family and kingdom, despite knowing Leon would never love her as a husband should.

But what if Ithera had a plan, one she set in motion years before her marriage?

One that would ensure she didn't have to live the rest of her days without love...

The Queen’s Lover is a lighthearted companion story to The King’s Guard and The King’s Gambit. This story is novelette length at approximately 12,000 words. For mature readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Odessa Lynne
• Release date: Mar 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301417148

Odessa Lynne

Odessa Lynne is a romance author at heart, even though many of her books cross the science fiction, fantasy, and romance genres.After years of reading romance, fantasy, and science fiction novels, Odessa discovered she liked romance in her fantasy, sex in her science fiction, and love between her heroes best of all. So that’s exactly what she puts in all her own stories now, for readers who enjoy the same!Odessa lives in the southeastern United States.Visit odessalynne.com for information about current and upcoming releases or to sign up to her new releases email list.

Book preview

THE QUEEN’S LOVER

A Hend & Yurt Companion Story

HEND & YURT

Odessa Lynne

ODELYN PUBLISHING

THE QUEEN’S LOVER

Odessa Lynne

Copyright © 2013 by Odessa Lynne

odessalynne.com

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Except for quotes used in any review, the reproduction or utilization of the work in whole or in part by electronic, mechanical or other means is forbidden without written permission of the author.

Cover design by Odessa Lynne

Cover photo © Curaphotography | Dreamstime.com

Published by Odelyn Publishing

odelyn.com

First Electronic Publication March 2013

Smashwords Edition

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, events, and incidents portrayed in this novel either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales are entirely coincidental.

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only and may not be re-sold or given away to other people.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

About This Book

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Also by Odessa Lynne

About the Author

About The Queen’s Lover

In The King’s Guard, Ithera D'oH of Hend married the Prince of Yurt and became Queen of all of Hend and Yurt for the sake of her family and kingdom, despite knowing Leon would never love her as a husband should.

But what if Ithera had a plan, one she set in motion years before her marriage?

One that would ensure she didn't have to live the rest of her days without love...

The Queen’s Lover is a lighthearted companion story to The King’s Guard and The King’s Gambit.

1

Princess Ithera had spent many a day imagining how painfully embarrassing it was going to be when she had to take her place at the Choice Feast and compete with princesses younger and prettier than herself for the attention of Prince Leon N’oR of Yurt.

Prince Leon had princesses such as Sylva D’oH and Tyria H’voR vying for his attention, and most everyone expected him to choose one of them as his betrothed princess. Even Ithera felt sure Sylva or Tyria would win the day, despite the surprising appearance of her own name on the final list of Hend princesses in line for marriage to Yurt’s future king.

Her impeccable lineage, her notable education, her friendly nature, each of those things could be blamed for her unexpected presence on the list.

Ithera had a suspicion, though, that her name wasn’t on the list for any of those reasons.

Ithera had her flaws. Of that she had no doubt. She tended toward irrational optimism, as her investment in silsk proved. She had lost a fortune to a man who promised to triple her money, and then she’d lost her virginity to the son of the armory clerk, which hadn’t been a shining moment in her past considering he turned out to have not one other lover but three. His handsomeness should have warned her but like many others before her she had succumbed to the allure of his trim figure and strong jaw anyway.

Ithera had her strengths, also, and one of those strengths was the ability to look upon things that seemed dire and unfortunate and see opportunity. The silsk debacle had brought her the chance to buy into SuperFine just as a magic worker had discovered a way to make it semi-transparent. Ithera had grown her investment by a factor of one hundred. And with her virginity out of the way, Ithera had no reason not to take a lover until after her marriage, whenever that might be. She had no virginity to save.

If Leon chose her, and that was still an unlikely scenario at best anyway, she would marry him without hesitation, because love often demanded one make sacrifices,