title: Protector (Anniversary of the Veil, Book 1) (Volume 1)
author:  Vanna Smythe 
description: Vanna Smythe is the author of Protector, the first book in the Anniversary of the Veil fantasy series. She has been writing creatively since her early teens, though one could say her creative writing efforts started long before that. While still in kindergarten, she once tore up a library book to make alphabet soup, and has been fascinated with what words can do, the pictures and worlds they can create, ever since. Book Two of the Anniversary of the Veil series, Decision Maker, is already available.
zlib_text: > The Veiled Descendants
  
  > Book 2 of The Veiled Duchess Series
  
  > Sophia Menesini
  
  Copyright © 2020 Sophia Menesini
  
  All rights reserved  
    
  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.  
    
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.  
    
  Cover design by: Despina Panoutsou  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  > _To my girls, Moony and Starlord, may you always be left holding your breath
  > to see what crazy thing I do next. xx_
  
  > Contents
  
  Title Page
  
  Copyright
  
  Dedication
  
  Chapter 1: Prologue
  
  Chapter 2: Beginnings
  
  Chapter 3: At Game’s End
  
  Chapter 4: Red-Handed
  
  Chapter 5: Governor
  
  Chapter 6: Father’s Daughter
  
  Chapter 7: All the Empress’s Horses, All the Priest’s Men
  
  Chap