Volynian Tales Series by Brien Feathers

Everything is a lie in Volynia. The Kniazhevs and their dragons have ruled Volynia for a thousand years, and all they’ve shown the Osukhan is cruelty and death. Dawn is a thief, a crafty one who can move things with her mind. Swindling card games and making the occasional silver coin disappear, she scrapes by and takes care of her sick brother... moreEverything is a lie in Volynia. The Kniazhevs and their dragons have ruled Volynia for a thousand years, and all they’ve shown the Osukhan is cruelty and death. Dawn is a thief, a crafty one who can move things with her mind. Swindling card games and making the occasional silver coin disappear, she scrapes by and takes care of her sick brother. They are Osukhan, of unclean blood, but she hasn’t been harming anyone beyond the thieving, until sorcerers kidnap her brother and task her with the impossible: go to the dragon’s lair and steal a jewel unlike the others. Ilya is a Kniazhev prince, but his mother was Osukhan. His blood is unclean, and his family never lets him forget it. He is a dragonless rider with no friends, and he’s in love with a princess who is about to marry another. Hopeless and graceless, he doesn’t care for others until the high prince sends him on a mundane errand, where he meets a lowborn woman who reminds him of the princess he is smitten with. She is a pledge trying to become a royal guard, and she needs his help. She is also a thief named Dawn, and he is about to lose more than a few coins. Winter and the Immortality Thief is Book One of the Volynian Tales, a sword and sorcery dark fantasy woven with romance. If talking dragons, an immortal tsar, slow-burn romance full of banter, heaps of violence, a pinch of bad language, and murderous characters with years of trauma and a moral compass missing its needle sound like your kind of fun, this book is for you. Content advisory for violence and language. less

The long night falls, and the shadows kill. Dawn and Ilya trek through the northern winter, bound for Yrsa, hoping to save Dawn’s brother from the Covenant. The endless hours of darkness and the blistering cold are enough to make anyone mad, but when Ilya starts speaking to phantoms, Dawn worries it’s a little more than a simple fever. Kraso takes his silvercloaks and dragons north in search of the elusive Yrsa... moreThe long night falls, and the shadows kill. Dawn and Ilya trek through the northern winter, bound for Yrsa, hoping to save Dawn’s brother from the Covenant. The endless hours of darkness and the blistering cold are enough to make anyone mad, but when Ilya starts speaking to phantoms, Dawn worries it’s a little more than a simple fever. Kraso takes his silvercloaks and dragons north in search of the elusive Yrsa. He expects purging the nest of flying sorcerers to be an arduous task and means to wait for warmer weather, but when a long-lost family member brings him an opportunity he cannot refuse, he hastens his plans. When dragon wings thunder across the night skies, they wake an ancient magic slumbering in the frozen hills of Narzha, and faced with a thousand-year-old enemy, the tsar’s immortality just might run out. Night and the Dead Prince is Book Two of the Volynian Tales, a sword and sorcery dark fantasy woven with romance. If talking dragons, an immortal tsar, slow-burn romance full of banter, heaps of violence, a pinch of bad language, and murderous characters with years of trauma and a moral compass missing its needle sound like your kind of fun, this book is for you. Content advisory for violence and language. less