Heiress of Healing

A healer who loves everyone must stop the man who loves no one--except her.

Iminique heals in secret, defying her father's edict never to use her magic.

Until the day her attempt to save a royal infant pits her against a nameless, faceless nemesis--a powerful, ruthless mage without a drop of mercy.

Iminique, though untried, untrained, and only thirteen, fights to shield the baby until--

The mage inexplicably lets her go, leaving both her and the royal babe alive.

No one cares. The king is indifferent to the child, the queen is hateful, and the servants spiteful. The babe falls to Iminique to protect, which consigns her to thankless days of drudgery with no one to help... except him.

The selfsame wizard who nearly slew the infant. His power pitilessly pins Iminique's mouth closed on all his secrets, keeping her from denouncing him.

Cruel fate makes him her only ally, but she doesn't understand why, as the years pass, he saves her time and again.

He holds his truths close, and she can never trust him, even as their connection blossoms into something more, something undeniably sheer madness.

TW: witness of captives being bred in enemy territory (not experienced by any heroine); a few captives make the decision to give up the lives of the unborn enemies within them; a few brief (non-graphic) scenes of marital abuse (not with the hero and NOT for titillation)