The Necromancer Princess
(2017)(The first book in the Necromancer Princess series)
A novel by Valery Keith
The first book in the Necromancer Princess trilogy.
Exiled from her birthright as a child, Brianna's only crime was to be born a necromancer in a world that mandates their execution. Rather than see his innocent child killed, her father, the King of Belmontis, entrusts his closest friend with her care and sends her away, claiming her death from illness.
Twenty years later, her father has been assassinated by her cousin, who now holds the throne, while Brianna is living anonymously in the Warrens of Mountainvale, the city's worst, most dangerous slums. Although she is unaware of the gathering threat beyond the borders of the country she might have ruled, a foreign necromancer is on the march with his army of the dead, heading right for the city she now calls home. Having already taken a neighboring nation in just weeks, he has set his sights on wealthy Belmontis and only another necromancer can stop him.
When Garrett Morvan, Mountainvale's city commander, receives a royal command to arrest the necromancer hiding in his city and hold her until the King's representative can arrive, he's shocked to think such a foul, unnatural creature might be lurking in Mountainvale. Only when his men finally bring her in, she's nothing like he imagined a necromancer would be. Instead of the ugly, insane hag he expected, she's young, beautiful, sarcastic...and determined to escape his custody, one way or another.
Genre: Fantasy
Exiled from her birthright as a child, Brianna's only crime was to be born a necromancer in a world that mandates their execution. Rather than see his innocent child killed, her father, the King of Belmontis, entrusts his closest friend with her care and sends her away, claiming her death from illness.
Twenty years later, her father has been assassinated by her cousin, who now holds the throne, while Brianna is living anonymously in the Warrens of Mountainvale, the city's worst, most dangerous slums. Although she is unaware of the gathering threat beyond the borders of the country she might have ruled, a foreign necromancer is on the march with his army of the dead, heading right for the city she now calls home. Having already taken a neighboring nation in just weeks, he has set his sights on wealthy Belmontis and only another necromancer can stop him.
When Garrett Morvan, Mountainvale's city commander, receives a royal command to arrest the necromancer hiding in his city and hold her until the King's representative can arrive, he's shocked to think such a foul, unnatural creature might be lurking in Mountainvale. Only when his men finally bring her in, she's nothing like he imagined a necromancer would be. Instead of the ugly, insane hag he expected, she's young, beautiful, sarcastic...and determined to escape his custody, one way or another.
Genre: Fantasy
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