THE KING'S RELIC

A king is murdered. The weapon belongs to his daughter. And the truth may be more dangerous than the killer.

Princess Mara Vaelor has spent years studying forbidden relics from a civilization erased by time.

Then her father gives her one unlike anything she has ever seen-a mysterious device that may contain information no living scholar understands.

Before he can tell her what he discovered, King Aldren is assassinated.

The murder weapon is an ancient relic firearm.

Mara recognizes it immediately.

It came from her private collection.

Now the kingdom is turning against the relics she has spent her life studying. Her brother is about to inherit a shaken throne. Captain Rhen Torvik is hunting the assassin. Foreign agents are watching for weakness.

And someone has already searched the dead king's study.

Mara should tell the truth.

Instead, she hides it.

Because the missing weapon is only the beginning.

Her father believed something was wrong with the history of their world-and the strange device he left behind may prove he was right.

The King's Relic is the explosive opening to the Vera-Terra Saga, a dark epic fantasy of royal intrigue, assassination, forbidden technology, buried history, divided loyalties, and secrets powerful enough to bring kingdoms to war.