In an alternate universe, the doorway from Elfhame to England swung open once more. Powerful exiles from the Fae rode forth to conquer. They divided the territory among them and the people in their path became subject to their every whim. An uneasy truce and a stilted regiment of war games has kept the balance between the Elf Lords through the centuries. But now the balance is about to tip in favor of the humans.

Lady Cassandra has lived her life with a single purpose: to kill, then die. Her mixed genetic heritage has given her the Death Dance which quickens the drumbeat of her blood and ensnares her in an instinctive connection with all energies and inhabitants of a space, transforming her to an unstoppable weapon. A weapon aimed at the father of her fiance.

General Dominic Raikes exists from one moment to the next. An accident of birth has given him a face that mirrors that of Mor'ded, his insane Elven father, lord of the Firelands. He has learned the harsh lesson that anything he cares for will be used against him as a test by his twisted father designed to free the potent black flame energies within him. He is stunned when his new wife-to-be begins to melt the ice surrounding his emotions. At all costs, no one must know of his attraction to her, but there are some forces more powerful than the magic he commands. His face is his father's but despite all the lords' best efforts, Dominic's human heart is his own.

Kathryne Kennedy, the author of The Relics of Merlin series and Beneath the Thirteen Moons, has created a fully-realized world. She has created characters that live and breathe between the pages; a talent which is, in my opinion, a hallmark of skilled storytelling. Kennedy gives even minor characters their bit of the stage, causing them to haunt my memory while I wait for the next book in the series. In THE FIRE LORD'S LOVER, the England she has built and those who people it have become important to me. I am eager to see the resolution of the revolution begun in volume one of The Elven Lord saga.

Book Summary

Fighting for control of a kingdom that is split into seven domains, Elven warlords use their human slaves to breed an endless supply of soldiers for their armies. Dominic Raikes, the half-blood son of the Elven Lord himself is one such warrior. Betrothed to Lady Cassandra, who has been raised in a convent to keep her pure, he little suspects that she's been secretly trained as an assassin to murder his father…and him. Dominic and Cassandra soon discover that each one is not what they seem, but the price of trust may be their very lives, and the destruction of the magical realm each is desperately trying to save…

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