Truthtaker

 
Lysandra James
Book Cover: Truthtaker
Part of the Splintered Regency series:
  • Truthtaker
Editions:ebook, Paperback

In a world built on lies, only the truth can break you.

In 1810, the Atlantia vanished from the Atlantic Ocean only to reappear, trapped in a frozen inland sea beneath endless ice and pale skies.

Three hundred years later, the ship’s descendants have built a glittering matriarchy sustained by a strange new magic—one that grants women power and drives men to madness. In New London, tension thrums between those who revere the memory of England and those who would see it buried in snow.

Lillia Pennyworth, a Truthtaker gifted with the power to unearth secrets, lives on the edge of both worlds—useful, feared, and utterly alone. When the Lady Regent summons her to a distant frontier town to conduct an unorthodox trial, Lillia doesn’t know what to expect. She certainly didn’t foresee fleeing through the snowy woods with unlikely companions—a creature born of her own making in relentless pursuit. Nor did she believe she would do so with a man whose very gaze reveals the truth she’s buried deep inside.

As forbidden truths come to light, she must decide what—and who—she’s willing to risk for the fragile warmth of love.

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Publisher: Radiance

About the Author

Lysandra James

Melissa Meibos (aka Lysandra James) is a dream-chasing dragon slayer who thinks she’s hilarious (because she is). As a breast cancer survivor, she’s a firm believer in using humor to get through difficult times and that stories are the best way to inspire others to overcome the darkness in their own lives. She loves people and often jokes that she could walk into an empty elevator and come out with a friend. Melissa started writing fantasy to avoid the tedious task of research only to write “displaced history” stories that take people from one time and place and dump them in another just to watch chaos ensue. This involves far more research than she’d ever hoped to do…and she absolutely loves it. Who knew?

Melissa lives in a small town in northern Utah with her handyman husband, three properly geeky sons, a diva house that requires a LOT of attention, and seven typewriters. The typewriters are the least demanding things in her life. Usually.

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