These Cruel Watchers
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Princess Lyudmyla could be forgiven for not paying much attention to the cryptic eye that opened on the sun three hundred years ago. Most people don't. The same cannot be said for the legions of shape-shifting Jinni who lost their powers and were forced into exile, hiding, or worse.
'These Cruel Wathers' begins the saga of a Kievan Rus princess whose acclaim as a falconer and her attempts to sabotage her brother's strategic marriage go awry when she is swept away by a betrayal and forced to live as a prisoner and pawn to a tyrannical emperor.
With enemies surrounding her and a mysterious outlaw appealing for her heart, Lyudmyla must outwit a deadly cult of courtesans and decipher the connection she discovers between herself, the great Eye of Qoethe the Watcher, and the Jinni hiding amongst the shadows around her.