Balanced on the Blade's Edge (Dragon Blood, Book 1)

Balanced on the Blade's Edge (Dragon Blood, Book 1)

by Lindsay Buroker
Balanced on the Blade's Edge (Dragon Blood, Book 1)

Balanced on the Blade's Edge (Dragon Blood, Book 1)

by Lindsay Buroker

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Overview

Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn't the model of military professionalism--he has a tendency to say exactly what's on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship--but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he's used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains. Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron--what's he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives...

Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the Referatu, the sorcerers who once helped protect Iskandia from conquerors. Their subterranean mountain community was blown up in a treacherous sneak attack by soldiers who feared their power. Everyone Sardelle ever knew is dead, and the sentient soulblade she has been bonded to since her youth is buried in the core of the mountain. Further, what remains of her home has been infested by bloodthirsty miners commanded by the descendants of the very soldiers who destroyed her people.

Sardelle needs help to reach her soulblade--her only link to her past and her last friend in the world. Her only hope is to pretend she's one of the prisoners while trying to gain the commander's trust. But lying isn't her specialty, especially when the world has changed so much in the intervening centuries, and if Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he'll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940149368921
Publisher: Lindsay Buroker
Publication date: 03/29/2014
Series: Dragon Blood Series , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 1,023,937
File size: 745 KB

About the Author

Lindsay is a full-time independent fantasy author who loves travel, hiking, tennis, and vizslas. She grew up in the Seattle area but moved to Arizona when she realized she was solar-powered.
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