BooksChatter: ☀ Empire's Daughter: Empire's Legacy [1]

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Empire's Daughter, an Alternative Universe Medieval Adventure by Marian L. Thorpe (18 February 2015, Arboretum Press, 336 pages).

This is the first book in the Empire's Legacy series.

Don't miss our interview with author Marian L. Thorpe .

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and the Kindle Cloud Reader Preview below, as well as full details of the series.

Empire's Daughter is FREE on Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library.

Author Marian L. Thorpe will be awarding all 3 paperbacks of the Empire’s Legacy trilogy to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour. Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read other excerpts (☀), interviews (ℚ), reviews (✍) and guest blog posts (✉).

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Synopsis

For twenty generations, the men and women of The Empire have lived separately, the women farming and fishing, the men fighting wars. But in the spring of Lena’s seventeenth year, an officer rides into her village with an unprecedented request. The Empire is threatened by invasion, and to defend it successfully, women will need to fight.

When the village votes in favour, Lena and her partner Maya are torn apart. Maya chooses exile rather than battle, Lena chooses to fight. As Lena learns the skills of warfare and leadership, she discovers that choices have consequences that cannot be foreseen, and that her role in her country’s future is greater than she could have dreamed.

Teaser: KCR Preview

Every journey begins with a choice.
One to Exile, One to War

Empire's Daughter
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The Series: Empire's Legacy

Empire's Hostage [2]

In the second book in the Empire's Legacy series, The Empire and the northern people have been at war for over a year, but a truce is finally at hand. As part of this treaty, Lena, now a Guardswoman on the Wall, is asked to stand as hostage, to go north to live and learn among the people of Linrathe. But not everyone there will welcome her.

As Lena learns more of the history of both her land and the north, a new threat emerges, one that will test her loyalty to its limits, and in the end, demand a price she could not have envisioned.

[Published 14 July 2017, 374 pages]

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Empire's Exile [3]

We cannot shape the circumstances to fit our lives, only our lives to fit the circumstances. What defines us, as men and women, is how we respond to those circumstances." Exiled from the Empire as a traitor, Casyn's words echo in Lena's mind. Determined to find Casil, the legendary city of beauty and learning in the East, she travels into long-unknown lands. Her experiences in the first winter leave her scarred and afraid, but, resolving to heal, and supported by an unexpected love, she continues her search. A chance meeting with envoys from the Empire and Linrathe, desperately seeking help from Casil, forces her to a difficult decision.

Struggling to keep faith with her choices, facing the almost-certain destruction of her land and her people, Lena's journey takes her to a deeper understanding of loyalty, sacrifice, and the dimensions of love.

[Published 22 July 2018, 400 pages]

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About the Author

Writer of historical fantasy and urban fantasy for adults. The Empire's Legacy series explores gender expectations, the conflicts between personal belief and societal norms, and how, within a society where sexuality is fluid, personal definitions of love and loyalty change with growth and experience.

The world of Empire's Legacy was inspired by my interest in the history of Britain in the years when it was a province of the Roman Empire called Britannia, and then in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire. In another life, I would have been a landscape archaeologist, and landscape is an important metaphor in the Empire's Legacy trilogy and in all my writing, fiction and non-fiction.

I live in Canada for most of the year, England for the rest, have one cat, a husband, and when I'm not writing or editing, I'm birding.

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