Trial of the Ornic

In a world where the magic you cast is restricted by trade, casting spells outside your trade is punishable by death. Though these laws were enacted long ago, in the sky above there is a yearly reminder: an enormous Rift that threatens to burn the world and is only held back by the spells of the nobility. A Rift created by those who felt anyone should be able to cast whatever spells they wish.Krysilla wants far more than the exhausting life as the wife of a baker who leaves all the work to her while he does whatever he likes. Aching to cast spells she's never learned, and secretly using spells denied her since her marriage, she tries to gain some salvation by being a good wife to her husband...until the day she helps a handsome, feverish minstrel who's collapsed by the side of the road.That one decision opens her to a world where nothing is as it seems, a world where the rules by which she's lived her life turn out to be only guidelines, at best, to those ordained to enforce them, a world where power becomes a living thing she can hold in her hand even as it captures her heart.Just like the handsome minstrel who tempts her in more ways than one.But how much of her world is she willing to see destroyed for the sake of truth? And what kind of price is she willing to pay to save those she loves?Full of intrigue and adventure with a slow-burn romance, The Baker's Wife is the first in the Trial of the Ornic series. I write fantasy novels. Most have romance. Some don't. I have a weakness for dragons and elves who don't act like elves (though I have yet to write them myself). My short fiction has been published in Factor Four Magazine.

Krysilla Jyomsa knew Zhiv would find a way to help everyone who escaped the attack on his home get to safety. She didn't expect that it would lead them to a lord who asks that they find a way to defend his city against both nobles and Dogs...or to the lord's daughter, a woman who once asked Zhiv to marry her, a woman far more beautiful and determined than Krysilla expected. With her own magic becoming strange to her, and with little time to learn, how much longer before she loses everything, including the growing affection between her and the minstrel who's captured her heart? I write fantasy novels. Most have romance. Some don't. I have a weakness for dragons and elves who don't act like elves (though I have yet to write them myself). My short fiction has been published in Factor Four Magazine.