Firebrand Audiobook (Free)
- Ellen Archer
- Penguin Audio
- 2017-04-11
Summary:
Magic, risk, and experience abound for messenger Karigan G’ladheon in the sixth book in Kristen Britain’s New York Times-bestselling Green Rider epic illusion series.
Zachary Davriel Hillander, High King of Sacoridia, rues how much he has had to give up to lead his realm, including the freedom to live and love as he chooses. When an embassy from Eletia comes to propose a jv between their realms to search out a vintage ally in the north, he’s dismayed to learn that the one about Firebrand Sacoridian they are thinking about to accompany their guidebook is the female he truly enjoys but cannot have: Green Rider Karigan G’ladheon.
Karigan has only just returned from a dark future where Sacoridia continues to be conquered and it is ruled with a despotic emperor, and she has not recovered in center or mind. As though that’s not enough, the castle ghosts won’t leave her alone. Though Zachary is certainly loath to component from her so immediately after her come back, he knows she is the best option to undertake the mission towards the north.
Each step on the journey places Karigan and her companions closer to enemy territory and danger, for northward lie the forces of Second Empire, Sacoridia’s longtime foe, and Grandmother, the necromantic leader of Second Empire, is not idle. She uses her magic to summon a crazy elemental nature to wreak havoc upon Zachary and his wife, Queen Estora.
At first the Sacoridians flourish in fending from the creature, nonetheless it thus covets Estora it can’t avoid. It abducts Zachary, assuming his type and his place at Estora’s side-but when it’s finally ousted, Zachary is still missing. Estora, by itself and weighty with twins, must prepare her realm for the coming conflict from the confines of her bedchamber.
Meanwhile, the danger only deepens for Karigan and her companions because they trip north. When she discovers herself caught amid a clash between forces, Karigan must save and protect her ruler before she falls into a capture established by Grandmother-a snare that could give Second Empire the energy to control the dead and all the demons from the hells.