Kalathan Chronicles

Trina has been thrown into prison for trespassing in the Temple loft - not surprising for someone marked and cursed as she is. What is astonishing, though, is that now that her time is up she is not being thrown back onto the streets: she is being taken, of all places in the whole of Kalathan, to the palace, home of the six princes she has fangirled over all her life. Theo, eldest of the princes, is convinced that the pilgrimage he has been sent on by his father is a pointless waste of time. But the shrine holds a sinister secret that plunges him, his brothers and the devilclaw Trina into an adventure that will take them across Kalathan and into the Empire, where it will be up to them to challenge the Emperor and his icy daughter for the future of their beloved land. "As a long-time fantasy reader, it's hard to be surprised as most stories follow a predictable pattern, with predictable outcomes, but this story manages to break the mould and provide something fresh. I'm so excited to read the rest of this series! " (Goodreads Review)

Kaspar, brother of the king, finally sets out on a long-planned diplomatic journey to the vast land of Mandaria, east of Kalathan. As he and his friends make their way over the mountains towards the beautiful city of Kangji, the Wuji of the province of Kang-Shan is desperately trying to save his daughters from the treacherous ambition of a priestess and her silent warrior husband. Kate le Roux lives in Cape Town, South Africa, where if she stands on tiptoes she can just about see Table Mountain from her kitchen window. She grew up on a diet of CS Lewis, LM Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott, and since being allowed into the Young Adult section at the local library at the age of thirteen she still hasn't really left. She spent a good number of years marking mostly horrible English essays and getting high school kids to act out bits of Shakespeare which she loved, leaving only to focus on being a mom to four crazy kids.