Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle

Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle

Penelope Leland has come to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister, Persy. But when the dashing Niall Keating begins to court her, Pen can't help being distracted from her studies. Little does Pen know, Niall is acting upon orders from his sorceress mother. And although it starts as a sham, Niall actually falls deeply in love with Pen, and she with him. Even if he halts his mother's evil plan, will Pen be able to forgive him for trying to seduce her into a plot?

Even princesses' best laid plots may go astray...terribly, very bad. Saraid of Thekla, seventeen years old, is on her way to marry the ruler of Mauburni, a country far away. She isn't sobbing into her silk-curtained litter, though, at the prospect of leaving home since she has plans--and The Book. She's spent months studying this ancient treatise on kingship in order to become the ideal queen for her new realm. Her new husband will fall passionately in love with her once he sees that.

It will be perfect. She's well aware of it. Nevertheless, The Book is mute on what to do when a mysterious young warlord stops one's trip over a cursed desert wasteland. Cadel has his own plans, which do not entail her visiting Mauburni.

Saraid will have to put The Book aside as she unravels his secrets and rely on her own wisdom--and her heart--to navigate the hazardous shoals of politics and power and become the queen she aspires to be.