Kindle Edition Amazon Category:  Fantasy ISBN-10:  1548306002 Type: Fiction Pages: 417 Copyright: September 1, 2017 ISBN-13: 9781548306007 Price: $4.99 (eBook) What if everything you thought you knew was a lie? In this gripping sequel to The Scribe's Daughter, a young woman finds herself unwittingly caught up in a maelstrom of power, intrigue, and shifting perceptions, where the line between ally and enemy is subtle, and the fragile facade of reality is easily broken. Irisa's parents are dead and her younger sister Kassia is away on a journey when the sisters’ mysterious customer returns, urging Irisa to leave with him before disaster strikes. Can she trust him to keep her safe? How much does he know about the fate of her father? Only a voyage across the Eastmor Ocean to the land of her ancestors will reveal the truth about her family’s disturbing past. Once there, Irisa steps into a future she has unknowingly been prepared for since childhood, but what she discovers is far more sinister than she could have ever imagined. Will she have the courage to claim her inheritance for her own? Excerpt SOMEWHERE ON THE EASTERN COAST OF PANIA IT SEEMS ODD THAT I would notice the birds. Of all the things my eyes could have focused on, it was the birds circling lazily overhead -- as if the pattern of their flight was more significant than the knife at my throat -- that caught my attention. “Your miserable life isn’t worth my spit,” the man hissed toward Casmir. “But your woman here…” He licked his lips and tightened his hold around my waist. I felt a rush of horror sweep over me, fearing what would happen next. Casmir lay face-first on the ground, heaving for air, blood and spit mingling then dripping in viscous streams to the grass. He could do nothing for me. Another savage kick connected with his stomach and he curled into himself. I screamed out and strained against the arm holding me. The kick didn’t have the desired effect. After a moment Casmir drew from a well deep within himself and pushed up onto all fours, slowly standing fully, making his way toward me. My captor sniffed and spun me, pushing me backwards, still holding the knife and grinning wickedly. I staggered backwards but caught myself, fighting for purchase on the crumbling edge of the cliff’s face. I dared not break my eyes from the man with the knife, so I heard rather than saw pebbles and debris skitter over the edge behind me. Casmir stood at my side, took my hand in his. We would face our fate together. “Alas, there is no time for sport, as much as I would have loved to make you watch.” The man with the knife sneered as he advanced forward a step, and his partner raised a sword, hefting it menacingly. Death comes to us all, it is true, but for many, death is seen coming from far off. They are ready when it arrives, have prepared themselves for the flight into the unknown. I never imagined that I would die this way, and I never saw it coming. Murdered at the hands of those we should have trusted.

A heartbreakingly emotional journey of discovery
Irisa is a nobody. She is a poverty stricken young woman like the rest of the people in her neighbourhood. Irisa and her sister are only one breath away from being evicted, but thankfully Kassia has been hired for a job, so perhaps this month they will be able to make the rent.

But the life the sisters have known is about to come to a sudden and abrupt end.

Unbeknown to Irisa, her deceased parents have a past — a past that could cost the lives of both Irisa and her sister. Irisa has many questions, but the cost of discovering who they really are will come at a terrible price.

I was so looking forward to reading the sequel to The Scribe's Daughter, and I am pleased to say Stephanie Churchill did not disappoint.

The King's Daughter is a heartbreakingly emotional journey of discovery. In The Scribes Daughter, Irisa was portrayed as the delicate sister, the one that needed looking after by her sister, but Irisa has an inner strength and a quick wit. She is as much a survivor as Kassia is.

The story itself was incredibly fast-paced with many unexpected twist and turns that kept me turning those pages with anticipation. The world Ms Churchill has created is so vivid in the telling that it is very easy to visualise, and her characterisation of both the protagonists and the antagonists were so well drawn that they practically breathed life.

The King's Daughter captivated me from beginning to end, and it is a story that I am sure I will come back to again. If ever there was a sit-down-and-finish book, then this is it. Kudos, Ms Churchill. But don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself.

I Highly Recommend.