The Traitors Schemes: Book 1 in the Curoria Chronicles

What is freedom without safety? What is safety without freedom?

Eighteen-year-old Liara had never known a life outside of Bria Hall until she overheard a dark deal between her mother, the Princess of Rindria, and a witch. Fleeing to the neighboring nation of Tressidil, Liara seeks to live in peace and obscurity.

Soon nobles from the Thestitiunian Empire demand to see her. Liara is faced with a choice: will she abandon her old life but risk vagrancy until her mother captures her, or will she step back into the viper pit to make alliances with an enemy nation, witches, and self-interested families? And with whatever choice she makes, will she actually ever truly find safety?

Liara must navigate irascible traveling companions, determine what is truth and what is a lie, and confront magical threats on her journey to freedom all while discovering what the actual cost of freedom may be.

This book creates characters you like and care about, as well as those you don’t, in an ever changing landscape of dangers and revelations in a world filled with magic, both good and dark.

Amazon review

A twisty and strongly penned fantasy that’s for young adults and older readers alike.

Amazon review

Imaginative. Engaging. Nostalgic. These are just some of the words that come to mind as I make my way through this read which takes on a lot of what we’ve seen before in fantasy and stamps its own unique identity on the genre.

Amazon review