There is a fire within you. A burning rage to match the sun. Soren Beckett is the Duchess carved from marble. She is the Sceptre called Ganymede who wields the lightning in her veins like a god. What she knows is simple: Her father is the Emperor and their reign is poison. Her Sceptre blood is more than a spark in the storm-she is the storm. After a training incident leaves her devoid of memory, the only things she has left are the words her mother spoke when she was a child, and the strange dreams of a young boy she knows as little bear. He is a secret kept close and held tight. He is a secret only she knows, until the Sceptre called Mercury has the same dream she does and sparks a hunt for the boy they believe to have the power that she keeps hidden. Thrust into a world made of fire and rage known as the Wastes, Soren finds herself in the heart of a rebellion against all that she knows and believes. When the Empire and its strongest Sceptre threaten her little bear, nothing will stand in the way of a woman protecting the ones she loves, not even the Emperor himself.
TS Ward is a Canadian writer specializing in speculative fiction novels. She works as a photographer in Midland, Ontario, where she lives with her husband, son, and dog.