Dragons talk and riders reign in this slow-burn romantic dark fantasy, where a telekinetic thief must trick an imprisoned prince to save her brother and pull off an impossible heist.

Dawn is a crafty thief who can move things with her mind. Swindling card games and making the occasional silver coin disappear, she has no grand ambition beyond a full belly—until the Covenant takes her brother hostage. They are sorcerers at war with the throne, and their demand is impossible: steal a jewel from a dragon’s lair.

Dragons mean the royal family, and to infiltrate the court, she needs a pawn.

Ilya is a bastard prince. His blood is tainted with sorcery, and he’s tethered to the capital by the tsar’s order. With no hope of freedom, he finds a friend in a low-born guard. But she’s a swindler in disguise who will cost him everything.

Winter and the Immortality Thief is the first installment in the Volynian Tales trilogy, a sword and sorcery dark fantasy with romance.

If dragons with attitude, an immortal tsar, flying sorcerers, a prince with hazel eyes, and murderous royals with years of trauma and a moral compass missing its needle sound like your kind of fun, this book is for you.