In a Garden Burning Gold

Description

Rhea and her twin brother Lexos have spent an eternity using cunning and magic to help rule their small, unstable country. Rhea controls the seasons to show favour to their most loyal stewards with bountiful harvests and short winters, while Lexos keeps the tides strong and impassable to maintain the country’s borders. Reigning over them both is their father, who holds dominion over death, using his most powerful weapon – fear – to keep the people, and his children, in line.

For a hundred years, Rhea and Lexos have been each other’s only ally, defending themselves and their younger siblings against their father’s increasingly unpredictable anger while also trying to keep up the appearance of unity and prosperity within their borders. Now, with an independence movement gaining ground, and their father’s iron grip weakening, the twins must take matters into their own hands to keep the world from crashing down around them. But as Rhea and Lexos fight to save their family, they begin to draw very different conclusions about their father’s style of rule.

And if the siblings aren’t careful, they’ll end up facing each other on the battlefield.