Bøker av Kayla St. James

In the Kraterran capital city, the people are suffering under the rule of a king who shouldn't be on the throne. The Silver Arrows, a rebel faction led by the fierce and determined Amaranth, have had enough of the Citadel's indifference to their plight. They devise a plan to take over the palace and demand that the king listen to their demands and help the people. On the eve of the Feast of the Stars, the rebels strike. King Sandryn Romenor is desperate to establish his dynasty and prove himself to his people. He knows that many suspect him of being involved in the previous king's death and that his rule is not popular. To win over the people, he decides to have a child to secure his family line. His chosen surrogate? Amaranth herself. The king believes that if she is bred, she will never stand against him again. Amaranth finds herself trapped in the palace, forced to endure the king's advances and his attempts to control her every move. She longs for freedom and to rejoin her fellow rebels in their fight for justice, but now it is not just her own life that hangs in the balance...Trapped by the Fae King is the final book in the Fae Surrogates series. This dark fantasy romance is suitable for readers over 18 years of age and features dubious situations and content that may be triggering for some readers.

In Kraterra, there were not always three kings who worked together to guide the kingdoms. In ages past, the heir to the throne was determined by which of the king's children were able to prove that his bloodline would prevail. With two royal children men seeking the throne, bitter rivalries are born out of desperation. The youngest son of an ailing king, Byrkana Kelcyne needs an heir if he hopes to gain the throne. Running for her life, all Micca wanted was a safe place to hide... But in Kraterra's underworld, there are no allies for the desperate. After taking refuge in a brothel, Micca finally thought she had found a friend, but Micca's life is thrown into chaos when she is sold to the highest bidder and is swept up in a world of political intrigue and danger that she never even knew existed.

Tilrog, orc lord of the windswept Northern Wastes and the fortress of Baerval, has been eager to find any reason not to return to the cold stones of his keep. Five years ago he lost his beloved wife in childbirth. His young children need the warmth of a mother's love, but he cannot bring himself to remarry, even if it is only in name alone. "Some secrets are meant to be kept… Even from the likes of you." The Lord of Rigan's half-sister, Iva, has been content in the knowledge that she would never be the mistress of her own keep. There was enough excitement in Rigan to keep her busy without the distraction of the Lord of Birsay's cold presence. But when her brother commands that she leave Rigan to accompany Tilrog north to Birsay, everything Iva thought she knew about him, and herself, will be thrown out of balance. To make matters worse, the possibility that she might leave his service is dashed by the discovery that she has not just been traded away to the angry lord, she's been sold into his service. Rigan is not Baerval, and the demands of her new position as nursemaid to the orc lord's halfling children consume every waking hour of her life-and every secret corner of her heart. But there are secrets to be found behind the salt-crusted walls of Baerval, and Iva is determined to discover the truth behind the whispers in the stone corridors, even if the discovery of it puts her very life in danger. Sold to the Orc is a dark fantasy romance. It contains dubious situations, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering.

Ranfinas Aka was allergic to following good advice. That was why he was caught in the middle of a torrential rain storm with the wife of an elven lord draped across his saddle, riding hard for the forests to lose the men chasing after them.It should have been easy. A quick kidnapping, a hefty ransom, and then he wouldn't need to worry about who would be paying his gambling debts or keeping the eye of his elder brother from following him across the countryside. "I'd expect nothing less of an orc bastard like you." Being a chambermaid wasn't exactly how Hera Keydi had imagined her life would turn out, but it was a living, and it kept food in the mouths of her younger siblings. But nothing could have prepared her for being kidnapped on a rainy night and thrown over the back of a horse-especially by the likes of an Aka bastard who had no business being anywhere near her master's keep.Hera just wants to return to her boring life, but that means making an uneasy truce with a scoundrel who should be in the stocks, not in her bed. Stolen by the Orc is the third book in the Orc Brotherhood Series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but is best enjoyed as a series.

Vanya Cardan always knew she would marry a lord. But her mother died when she was just a girl, and her father had no interest in raising her properly. She had been left to her own devices for so long that Vanya had never considered the fact that she might be used as a political bargaining tool. Romance and marriage were never in her plans-but when the Lord of Rigan summons her to Aired, his orders must be obeyed. As the eldest bastard of the Lord of Rigan, Saros Aka has been all over his father's lands as his representative, bearing the lord's seal and carrying his authority. But even though he has been claimed by an elven lord, his orc bloodline haunts him at every turn. Playing escort to a spoiled daughter of one of his father's lords on the dangerous southern road was not a task he ever expected to be saddled with. He has a duty to protect her, but leaving her on the side of the dirt road wouldn't be a bad option, either. Protected by the Orc is a dark fantasy romance. It contains dubious situations, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering.

The pressure to find a woman to bear the heir to the third crown of Kraterra weighed heavily on my shoulders, but that didn't mean I was in a hurry to find her. I was the peacemaker. After the dust of conflict had settled I was the one who signed the treaties and negotiated new alliances-or the payment of tributes. I'd never made a rash decision in my life. Until the moment I laid eyes on a slave who should never have wandered into my presence. Aree was born a slave, but that didn't mean she wasn't worthy to carry the child of a king.Owned by the Fae King is the third book in the Fae Surrogates series. This dark fantasy romance is suitable for readers over 18 years of age and features dubious situations and content that may be triggering for some readers.