The Promised Queen Kate Johnson 9780008684839

'What's so funny?' she snapped.

He wanted to brush away that sweaty hair from her nape and kiss her there. His fingers remembered the heat and silk of her skin when he'd unfastened her dress. The scent of her, warm and rich, still lived in his mind. He wanted to lick the salt from her skin.

Remember you can't have her. 'Nothing,' he said. 'At all.' He stood and extended his hand. 'Your vessel awaits.'

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In a realm where magic has vanished and a kingdom teeters on the brink, Ember Hart, a master thief with a hidden past, is thrust into a strange new world and a destiny she never sought. Anointed as 'the Promised One', she is bound by a twisted prophecy into an unholy union with the kingdom's beastly prince. Rumours of his brutality haunt the palace halls.

But Ember is no sacrificial lamb.

Forming a precarious alliance with the dangerous Rhaell, Captain of the Guard, Ember seizes the chance to return home by helping to restore the kingdom's lost magic. In this land of danger and desire, can she reclaim her freedom or, with every barb and bated breath, will her growing awareness of Rhaell risk everything she yearns for?

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'A vibrant magical world, woven throughout with Johnson's trademark wit, snark and spice' Ruth Frances Long

'The story had me hooked from the beginning-there's magic, drama, romance, and some great twists that kept me guessing.'

'The Promised Queen by Kate Johnson is a one in a lifetime book!'

'Heart pounding adventure with a thief searching for stones to complete a heart.'

Kate Johnson was born in the 1980s in Yorkshire and now lives in Essex, where she belongs to a small pride of cats. She has a second cousin who made the Guinness Book of Records for brewing the world's strongest beer and she also once ran over herself with a Segway scooter. These two things are not related.

Kate has worked in an airport, a lab and various shops, but much prefers writing because mornings are definitely not her best friend. In 2017 she won Paranormal Romantic Novel of the Year from the Romantic Novelists' Association with her novel Max Seventeen.