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When words fail, bring out the guns, swords, and death spells. Marina is the daughter of Tsar Alexander the Cruel, the most powerful warlock. She's also a princess of the Court of White Rose. The only problem is that she's mundane-she has no magic.On her sixteenth birthday Marina fled from her father's tsardom to the revolutionist side of Muscovy, and five years later she's doing all right, working as a seamstress in the United Workers' Factory. Despite the political police, the never-ending witch hunt, and her best friend living as an orange cat, she's happy. She gets along with her cottage mates and is even seeing a guy... until the city blows up, she's implied in the sabotage, her guy turns out to be an enemy, her friends are murdered, and an alchemist maniac hunts her down for a blood vendetta.With the Red Army and the Alchemist Federation on her heels, Marina runs back to the Court of White Rose, but when death follows her home she must uncover a prophecy, reconcile with the warlock, and stop an oncoming war. It's a tall order for a seamstress.The first book in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.Content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

Darkness may come and it may be long.The civil war between the Court of White Rose and the revolutionist Reds has raged on for a decade, leaving the throne bankrupt and the tsardom on its last legs. Prince Alexander, the youngest in the family of royal white witches, is only nineteen and infatuated with a danseur of the Grand Theater. He yearns for peace and dreams of freedom from obligations to his father. But when the tsar is assassinated and the Razumov stronghold falls to alchemist weapons, Alexander is plunged into a world of dark magic, treachery, and brutality. Through trials that test his soul, he becomes the Warlock of Muscovy, Alexander the Cruel, all the while falling in love with a foreign prince who saved his life.Twenty years later, his daughter Marina faces tribulations of her own. Taken hostage by the Federation and imprisoned on foreign lands, she must reconcile with her alchemist lineage, face off with an old enemy of her family, and escape in time to save the warlock bent on a perilous mission. On the way, she unearths a lie that has been told for two decades. But what can she do with such a secret if all ears are deaf to the truth?The second installment in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.Content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

The gods have placed their wager and now all bets are off.When Alexander's seeker spell fails to find Marina, the tsar grows disheartened, believing that the princess may be lost at sea. To soften the blow he's afforded a little time with his beloved Sai. But the Akari prince must leave when bad news arrives from the Court of Lions.Mistakenly, Marina lands at the western shore of Muscovy, deep into Red territory. Treachery runs among her company as Marina struggles to find her way back to the tsar, and her relationship with Yuri turns a page when hunters arrive looking for her.War erupts between the Republic and the alchemists when the Federation attacks the Red Capital, but it's not a fight the mundane state can win alone.The end of the long night has been told, but who lives to see the light is not yet known. In the final battle between the Alchemist Federation and the Court of White Rose, who will be victorious, and who will perish?The death of the White Rose has been foreseen since the birth of the chosen, and that is the wager of the gods in the final chapter of the Sun War Trilogy. Is the fate of men set, or can the gods be challenged?