title: Mistress of Winter
author:  Giles Carwyn 
description: The sequel to 2006's <i>Heir of Autumn</i> is another tangle of convoluted plots, age-old grudges and old-fashioned empire building seasoned with plenty of sex and violence. Eighteen years earlier, heroic young Brophy sacrificed himself to save the kingdom of Ohndarien, submitting to an endless sleep of terrible dreams induced by a curse called the black emmeria. Since then, the best efforts of sex-magic sorceress Shara have been unable to free him. But then Arefaine Morgeon, the ambitious teenage sorceress revered as a goddess in the kingdom of Ohohhim (the Opal empire), Ohndarien's rivalmanages to awaken Brophy. She convinces him to come away with her to the ruined magical city of Efften, where he will finally be free of the taint of the black emmeria. If the Opal empire gains the magical powers of Efften, however, Ohndarien will fall. Carwyn and Fahnestock keep the plot and onslaught of characters churning forward; fantasy readers who missed the first book in the seriesand even some who didn'twill find it a challenge to keep up. <i>(May)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Winter’s Wallflower
  
  The Wicked Winters Book Eight
  
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  Scarlett Scott
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He’s the lord of London’s underworld. She’s the lady who deceived him. And
  now, there will be hell to pay…
  
  Dominic Winter rules his empire with cutthroat determination, his heart as
  cold and dead as the January ground. Debts must be paid. Men must be loyal.
  Anyone who defies him will suffer the consequences, including the indolent
  aristocrats who frequent his establishments.
  
  When a beauty boldly ventures into his lair and strikes a bargain with him to
  save an unworthy lord, Dom is captivated. Though his instincts tell him she
  cannot be trusted, soon, he will do anything to make her his. Until she
  disappears.
  
  Desperate to save her beloved brother from ruin—or worse—at the hands of the
  despicable Mr. Winter, Lady Adele Saltisford offers herself in exchange. But
  one night of unexpected passion leaves her with dire consequences. Torn
  between her dangerous attraction to Dom and loyalty to he