The Ippos King

Serovek Pangion, the margrave known as the Beladine Stallion, carries a heavy load after a demonic horde is beaten back at great cost. Guilt and nightmares dog him. He sets out to bring the soulless body of the monk Megiddo to the heretical Jeden Order, who will keep it safe.

His companion on the road is sha-Anhuset, a Kai woman he admires and desires more than anyone. She barely tolerates him. Loyal to her regent, she agrees to serve as a Kai ambassador on the trip, though Serovek irritates her like no one else, and she fears he will win his way past her armor.

The trouble goes well beyond the tension between them. The demons everyone thought destroyed are stirring again. A warlord with a bloody appetite for power turns what should be a mission of mercy into a struggle to stay alive.

Then the Beladine king brands Serovek a traitor. Anhuset must decide whether to give up the man she has come to love or to abandon her lifelong fealty to the Kai. This is the continuation of the Wraith Kings saga, a fantasy romance with an enemies-to-lovers slow burn.