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.
Tagged as:
- fantasy 21
- competent heroine 18
- class difference 16
- height difference 16
- political/court intrigue 16
- men in uniform 14
- dangerous heroine 14
- m-f romance 14
- independent heroine 13
- magic 13
- plain heroine 13
- grumpy & sunshine 12
- gifted/super-heroine 12
- military 11
- take-charge heroine 11
- warlord/commander hero 11
- sassy heroine 10
- paranormal 9
- aristo/royal heroine 9
- grumpy/cold hero 9
- sleuth heroine 9
- working class hero 8
- bodyguard/protector hero 8
- fighter hero 8
- high fantasy 7
- cheerful/happy heroine 6
- athlete heroine 5
- caretaking 5
- multicultural 5
- new adult 4
- war 4
- bodyguard/protector heroine 4
- possessive hero 4
- slow burn 2
- enemies to lovers 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- misogyny 1
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 12
- third person pov 8
- male pov 4
