Rievers Heart

Guardians of Light, Book 5. Verdeen can't believe her first assignment as a newly minted elven warrior. King Loren wants her to journey to the Isle of Ice as bodyguard to a human riever. Daq Aryk. Barbarian. Prince of thieves. Aryk dreams of uniting six fractious clans into a peaceful nation. Failure means they are all doomed to kill each other off—and the nightmares of his son's death by sword will come true. The new elven ambassador rouses his ire, not because she's female, but because she's inexperienced. Her possibly needless death weighs on his already overburdened soul. Her beauty is a distraction he can't afford. In a fragrant, moonlit garden, Verdeen dares to kiss the mortal riever. The heat shakes her to the core, and frees a desire that should occur but once in her life. With a mate. As their quest twists down ever more dangerous paths, though, their bond is the asset that could assure peace…or the liability that could send a dream down in flames.