Passion Play (River of Souls, #1)

FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CLAIRE O'DELL COMES AN EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY ABOUT MAGIC AND MULTIPLE LIVES...

Therez Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek's most prominent merchants. Hers is a life of wealth and privilege, and she knows her duty?to marry well and to the family's advantage. But when Therez meets the much older man her father chose, she realizes he is far crueler than her father could ever be.

She decides to run. This choice will change her life forever.

Therez changes her name to Ilse and buys passage with a caravan bound for distant cities. Her flight leads her to Lord Raul Kosenmark, once a councilor of the old king and now master of a famous pleasure house. But feasts and courtesans are only the outermost illusion in this house of secrets, and Ilse soon discovers a world of magic and political intrigue beyond anything she had imagined.

Auteur

Claire O'Dell is the author of dozens of short stories and a number of SF/F novels, including the SF mystery series, The Janet Watson Chronicles, and the epic fantasy series River of Souls. Her first novel, Passion Play, won the 2010 RT Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Epic Fantasy and was long-listed for the James Tiptree award. Her novel A Study in Honor won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery. She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.