Then there are others whose deaths were announced too hastily. There are those who were killed or almost so who are seemingly resurrected by potion or magic.

But death seems to be an elusive state for many in Crystal Storm. That is, if they don’t all kill each other first. Yet another contingent is made up of the Paelsian rebel Jonas Cleo’s childhood friend Nic Felix Gaebras, the former assassin of King Gaius and recent victim of Amara Taran Ranus, twin brother of the Paelsian killed by Magnus and the newly-resurrected brother of Amara and love interest of Nic, Prince Ashur Cortas.Įveryone is heading to Paelsia, looking for Lucia and the Kindred. How she will do this with all of Paelsia seeing her as a dark witch who unleashed evil on their land and with her pregnancy progressing exponentially? She enters the Sanctuary of the immortals to learn that it is up to her to find and imprison Kyan and locate the other Kindred to return them to save the Sanctuary. Meanwhile, Lucia is looking to redeem herself after the role she played in aiding Kyan whose wrath led to the destruction of a Paelsian community. With the help of King Gaius’ mother, Selia, the King and entourage head to Paelsia. Though reluctant to join forces with him, Magnus and Cleiona have their own reasons to do so, including getting help to break a curse that would kill Cleo should she become pregnant. He is determined apparently to right some wrongs and that includes defeating Amara, reclaiming the kingdom of Mytica and getting the Kindred, all by joining forces with his son Prince Magnus and his wife, Princess Cleiona, and seeking his sorceress daughter Lucia.

Now married to the Empress Amara, who killed off her whole family to reign the Kraeshian Empire, King Gaius has survived a fall that should have killed him but didn’t because of a potion for strength he’d been given years earlier by his mother.

But things are not that straightforward, as there are still power struggles for control, alliances made for breaking and allegiances in flux. And everyone wants to possess all four so that they may unlock the power of the full Kindred. Now Princess Cleiona has the earth Kindred, King Gaius possesses the air Kindred and Empress Amara has the aquamarine that is the water Kindred, while Kyan the fire god has already been released from the amber orb that is the fire Kindred. At the conclusion of Book 4, Frozen Tides, the four Kindred, stone orbs possessing elemental magic, had been retrieved and possessed by four different entities.

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