The Emperor's Secret Enemy

Zora Ravenal joined the Crimson Army to destroy the empire, not to become anyone's champion.

Grief had already forged her into a hunter, and sheer stubbornness carried her into the Knight Mages, the Commonwealth's last true shield against the Empire's storm magic.

The plan nearly holds, until she is trapped in a war she cannot abandon, forced to hide dangerous secrets, and bound to the one man she should never be left alone with.

He is a Royal Mage with a lethal past, a vicious temper, and an obsession fixed entirely on her.

Ordered to train as partners and stake their lives on each other, they remain enemies who cannot step apart.

The longer they are made to rely on each other, the more that hatred warps into something far more dangerous than war.