Storm & Shield (Mages of the Wheel #2)
J.D. Evans
“All you see is that I run. Why haven’t you realized I always come back?”
She is lightning and storm. A spy, driven out of her home by a tyrant ruler. He is granite and earth. A guard, ordered to keep her contained.
To protect herself and her family, she’s learned to go unnoticed, unseen. Suddenly a refugee in a land that once was enemy and now must be home, she isn’t certain where she belongs, or what her duty is beyond her family. She can’t protect them alone this time, but the only man who can help her is the only one she cannot ask.
He’s sworn his loyalty to the Sultana since she lifted him out of the gutter that made him. The arrival of a foreign spy loyal to the new prince makes him question himself and his orders, and his mistakes threaten the life of the ruler he swore to serve.
War will force choices of them both. She—to remain a spy, or stand and lend her powerful, untamed magic to the Sultana of Tamar. He—to remain a loyal, unquestioning guard, or learn to trust his instincts, and his heart.
They are magic in opposition, earth and sky, steady and mutable. One immovable as stone, the other fast as the wind. Balance, sometimes, is chaos.
He needed the storm and wildness of her, he needed the way she broke him apart.
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- fantasy 20
- competent heroine 17
- class difference 15
- height difference 15
- political/court intrigue 15
- men in uniform 13
- dangerous heroine 13
- m-f romance 13
- independent heroine 12
- magic 12
- plain heroine 12
- grumpy & sunshine 11
- gifted/super-heroine 11
- military 10
- take-charge heroine 10
- warlord/commander hero 10
- sassy heroine 9
- paranormal 8
- aristo/royal heroine 8
- grumpy/cold hero 8
- sleuth heroine 8
- high fantasy 7
- working class hero 7
- bodyguard/protector hero 7
- fighter hero 7
- cheerful/happy heroine 5
- new adult 4
- athlete heroine 4
- caretaking 4
- multicultural 4
- war 3
- bodyguard/protector heroine 3
- possessive hero 3
- slow burn 1
- enemies to lovers 1
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- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 11
- third person pov 7
- male pov 4
