Everything is a lie in Volynia.
The Kniazhevs and their dragons have ruled Volynia for a thousand years, and all they’ve shown the Osukhan is cruelty and death.
Dawn is a thief, a crafty one who can move things with her mind. Swindling card games and making the occasional silver coin disappear, she scrapes by and takes care of her sick brother. They are Osukhan, of unclean blood, but she hasn’t been harming anyone beyond the thieving, until sorcerers kidnap her brother and task her with the impossible: go to the dragon’s lair and steal a jewel unlike the others.
Ilya is a Kniazhev prince, but his mother was Osukhan. His blood is unclean, and his family never lets him forget it. He is a dragonless rider with no friends, and he’s in love with a princess who is about to marry another.
Hopeless and graceless, he doesn’t care for others until the high prince sends him on a mundane errand, where he meets a lowborn woman who reminds him of the princess he is smitten with. She is a pledge trying to become a royal guard, and she needs his help. She is also a thief named Dawn, and he is about to lose more than a few coins.
Winter and the Immortality Thief is book 1 of the Volynian Tales, a sword and sorcery dark fantasy woven with romance.
If talking dragons, an immortal tsar, slow-burn romance full of banter, heaps of violence, a pinch of bad language, and murderous characters with years of trauma and a moral compass missing its needle sound like your kind of fun, this book is for you.
Content advisory for violence and language.
