From the national best-selling author of Jeweled Fire.
In the latest novel in Sharon Shinn's Elemental Blessings series, a
woman is confronted with the past she left behind - and an uncertain
future.
Leah Frothen has returned home to rebuild the life she's avoided for
years. But she can scarcely catch her breath before she is summoned to
meet with the regent, Darien Serlast, the man who made her a spy. Leah
is reluctant to take on a new assignment, but Darien has dangled the
perfect lure to draw her in.
Leah finds she enjoys the challenges of opening a shop catering to
foreign visitors, especially since it affords her the opportunity to get
to know Mally, the child she abandoned five years ago. Leah is
simultaneously thrilled, terrified, hopeful, moved, and almost undone as
she slowly attempts to become part of her daughter's life.
But when the regent asks her to spy on ambassadors from a visiting
nation, she develops a dangerous friendship with a foreign woman and
finds herself falling in love with a man from her past. Soon Leah learns
that everyone - her regent, her lover, and even her daughter - has
secrets that could save the nation, but might very well break her heart.