Ice & Ivy

Nesrin has no magic and no rank, and all she wants is to keep her family together. That ends when the Grand Vizier publicly humiliates a man who crossed him. Nesrin is pulled into the politics of the court and bound into a marriage she has no way out of.

She cannot tell which of the people around her are honest. The one she keeps turning toward is Ihsan, a mage whose water magic has twisted into ice. His manner is as frosty as his power, and he has little reason to welcome her.

Outside the palace, the Blight and famine are ravaging Tamar and Sarkum. In the city of Narfour, the population is close to open rebellion, so every court decision carries weight.

Ihsan must set his suspicion of the woman who has overturned his life against the warmth she brings him. The romance builds slowly amid court intrigue, in the fourth book of the Mages of the Wheel series.