River of Souls Series

FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CLAIRE O’DELL COMES AN EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY ABOUT MAGIC AND MULTIPLE LIVES... Therez Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek’s most prominent merchants. Hers is a life of wealth and privilege, and she knows her duty—to marry well and to the family’s advantage. But when Therez meets the much older man her father chose, she realizes he is far crueler than her father could ever be. She decides to run. This choice will change her life forever. Therez changes her name to Ilse and buys passage with a caravan bound for distant cities. Her flight leads her to Lord Raul Kosenmark, once a councilor of the old king and now master of a famous pleasure house. But feasts and courtesans are only the outermost illusion in this house of secrets, and Ilse soon discovers a world of magic and political intrigue beyond anything she had imagined.

THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CLAIRE O’DELL’S EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY... Months have passed since Ilse Zhalina abandoned her beloved Raul Kosenmark to start a new life in the garrison city of Osterling Keep. Theirs is a dangerous game, with enemies on both sides of the border. While Raul continues to influence the kingdom’s politics from afar, Ilse is set on her own quest to find the fabled jewels of the goddess Lir. Two have been lost to humankind for centuries. The third is held by Leos Dzavek, king of Károví and sworn enemy of Veraene. In her search, she encounters a shipwrecked prisoner from another land, a woman who has a secret of her own...and one of the lost jewels. The two women become uneasy allies in their hunt for the third, because finding it could mean salvation for both of their realms.

THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CLAIRE O’DELL’S EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY... King Leos, the near immortal ruler of Károví, is dead. The three jewels who granted him such powers have reunited into a single magical entity and slipped back into the magical void, where they were born. But the gods are not yet satisfied. With Károví in turmoil and the king of Veraene eager to establish a new empire, the threat of war remains. Valara Baussay, Morennioù’s long-absent queen, wants nothing more than to return home and reclaim her crown. Duke Miro Karasek must honor his promise to undo the wrongs he visited upon her and her queendom. And Ilse Zhalina is desperate to carry vital news that might save her homeland from an ill-advised war. Ilse makes this long journey back to where her story began, to complete the journey she attempted lives and centuries before, and to bring peace between the realms.