Vasalie Moran danced in King Illian's court before he had her convicted of a murder she never committed, and two years in his dungeons left her alive but no longer anyone's idea of a damsel.
Her freedom comes with conditions: spend the month-long royal Gathering as his spy. The assignment turns bloody quickly, requiring her to injure and deceive people she works beside, and what she learns suggests Illian answers to something worse than himself. Turning to his brother and rival, the King of the East, places her between two men at war and far closer to the truth about her own past than is safe.
Before it reaches your shelf:
• A debut romantic fantasy with court intrigue at its core
• A dancer turned reluctant spy as the central figure
• Rival brothers holding opposing thrones
• Betrayal, hidden history and hard-won hope as its themes
For readers of romantic fantasy and political court fiction, A Dance of Lies is stocked at Boipoka.