Elizabeth Reign
The Amazzi Warriors and Queens Sage
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1672 BC in the ancient city of Apasas. The harbor buzzes with merchants and traders coming and going from all directions over the Aegean Sea. The Amazzi have ruled this city for more than a thousand years but political storms are forming over the ancient sea. The seafarers of Krete, the mighty Minoan nation are changing. Rumblings from within are erupting in the form of Mycenaeans who slowly infiltrate city by city.
Kynna of Thera never thought her home would change, but her life was thrown upside down and at thirteen she is forced from her mother’s arms and boards a ship with her grandmother, Anais, fleeing Thera for Limnos.
When things seem as if they couldn’t get any worse, they are rescued by Myrine, a warrior of the Amazzi people who rule the city of Apasas.
To Kynna it seems like an ending. To Myrine it’s only the beginning. Together their bond of friendship steers their lives like twisting vines. Choices bring them together and tear them apart to face their changing world and choose what is the greater good without losing all they hold dear.
Three summers ago, Myrine arrived on Patmos as a Leopard trainee. After initiated into the elite unit of Amazzi warriors, she becomes a Leopard Captain committed to training new recruits. Returning to Apasas wasn't on her agenda but after being ordered home Myrine is determined to complete the mission and return to Patmos. From the moment Myrine steps from the boat she's faced with undeniable changes. Committed to her assignment, she avoids her feelings, but when she sees Kynna again, buried passion erupts, testing her vow to protect her people and herself.
Content with her found family, Kynna awaits the birth of her child. But as the intrusion of the Mycenes intensifies and threatens the safety of the Amazzi, Kynna sends word to Myrine begging her to come home. Kynna accepts that Myrine has ignored her, but when Myrine finally comes home she is distant, angry and not alone. Kynna tries to accept that friendship is all she can expect, focusing on her studies as a priestess of the Goddess Rhea. When the city erupts and the Mycenes bolster their control over Apasas, Kynna makes a decision that will change everyone's future.