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Melting the Ice Queen
2027
First Published
400
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Part of Series

The epic conclusion of the Queens of Villainy series, featuring an ice queen’s marriage of convenience to the fiery high priestess…and their kingdoms will never be the same again. Queen Ailana of Nornne is famous for her magical powers over ice and snow and her equally frosty self-control. The head of a powerful spy network and the guiding force behind the Queens of Villainy, she makes every decision based on cool and unemotional calculations... Including marriage to a woman she strongly suspects of keeping dangerous secrets. Hot-headed High Priestess Clothilde has been under the brutal control of her brother Otto, the Emperor of the Serafin Empire. But behind the smile she’s been forced to wear in public, a fiery passion for justice has been building—and an equally hot passion for Ailana herself. Clothilde proposes a marriage of convenience in their shared efforts to bring down her brother, but she’s determined to melt all of Ailana’s walls of ice, because Clothilde has been keeping another secret, too. The gods of the Imperial Pantheon have been speaking to her for years, and they’ve gifted her with two world-shaking Ailana is her destined true love...and if the two wives don’t find a way to work together as equals, side by side with their fellow Queens of Villainy, a storm of war and blood will leave all of their futures in ruins.

Author

Stephanie Burgis
Stephanie Burgis
Author · 55 books

I grew up in America, but now I live in Wales with my husband, fellow writer Patrick Samphire, our two sons, and our sweet (and extremely vocal) tabby cat, Pebbles. I write fun MG fantasy adventure novels (most recently The Raven Crown duology) and wildly romantic adult historical fantasy novels and novellas (most recently Claws and Contrivances and Good Neighbors). To get early sneak peeks at new stories and novels, sign up for my newsletter here: stephanieburgis.com/newsletter. To join my Dragons' Book Club and get early copies of every ebook that I put out myself (so, all of my novellas, short story ebooks, etc!), check out my Patreon page, where I also published a series of fantasy rom-coms (Good Neighbors) across 2020-2021. I only rate and review the books that I like, which is why all of my ratings are 4 or 5 stars.

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