Betrothed to the Blade

One steely pirate. One bossy princess. Two very different ideas of where this ship ought to go.

For fans of Brandon Sanderson, Terry Pratchett, and The Princess Bride comes a witty, fast-paced fantasy adventure brimming with sword fights, sky battles, and a magical world you will not want to leave.

Princess Cordetta is many things: an inventor, a magic-seer, the elder daughter of a royal family in a kingdom where elder daughters must marry before their younger sisters can even be courted. But what she refuses to be is the wife of Fitzbarton Humphreys-Humphries, a man who requires seven forks to eat breakfast and has already told her there will be no reason for any wife of his to make anything other than babies.

And so, she makes a plan, steals a flying ship, and runs.

What she does not plan for is Heath, a sword-skilled pirate who has already stolen his way aboard with a sack of suspicious weapons and a burning vendetta he refuses to explain. He needs her ship. She needs his navigational skills. Together they must outrun the Seep, a spreading magical corruption that twists forests into thorned nightmares and births monsters from its depths.

The closer they sail to the truth about Heath's past, the more Cordetta realizes that some hunts cannot end without a cost.

BETROTHED TO THE BLADE features:

• A clever, fiercely independent heroine who builds her own weapons and dislikes being rescued but won't turn it down
• A brooding, battle-scarred hero whose sharp edges soften in all the right places
• Epic monster fights, high-stakes aerial battles, and a glittering masquerade ball
• A reluctant alliance that becomes something far more complicated
• A lovable creature named Bones who steals every scene she appears in (or at least, tries to take a bite)
• A richly imagined world of Moonjade magic, Seep-horrors, and sky-sailing adventure

Perfect for readers who love:

Perfect for readers who love pirates and princesses, ancient magic and new inventions, heroes who protect with their lives, and stories where the banter is as sharp as the swords and the stakes are as high as the sky.

Betrothed to the Blade is the first book in The Betrothed Saga.