The Chosen One's Substitute

When the most powerful religious order in the Empire summons her five-year-old sister, Asha does the only thing she can-she takes her place. Armed with a whip, destructive magic that runs too hot in her hands, and a stubbornness her great uncle calls close to being well-trained, Asha leaves her sprawling Mage family behind to enter a world of soldiers, politics, and dangers far greater than she imagined.

Across the sea, Mago plays a far deadlier game. A whore master in the camp of the Dragon...