Queen and Country Series by Patty Jansen
Queen and Country #2
Willow Witch
Patty Jansen
Epub v5After fleeing from the burning ruins of Saardam,
Johanna, Prince Roald, Loesie and Nellie have been captured by a group of
bandits and are being taken to a place unknown through a forest rife with
magic. Loesie, struck mute by an unknown but powerful sorcerer, is behaving
increasingly strange. The friends try to escape, but is Loesie helping them or
is she a danger to them?
Every step they take through the ghost-ridden forest brings them closer to the
duke who is rumoured to be the source of the evil magic, the necromancer whose
anger against Saarland's royal family has lain the world to waste.
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Queen and Country #3
The Idiot King
Patty Jansen
Epub v5Johanna, Roald, Nellie and Loesie have come to
Florisheim finding many of their kinsmen there. The survivors from the burning
of Saardam who have come here are the nobles who were never great supporters
the old king, and it is likely that they won’t support his son either, even if
he was normal. They support his marriage to Johanna even less and Johanna’s
position as the new king’s wife would be improved immensely if she produced an
heir, but so far that’s not happening.
Florisheim is alive with evil magic, and that magic is starting to affect the
Saarlanders who are unused to it. They suffer apparitions of ghosts, people
driven to injure themselves, or taken prisoner to work in a mysterious hole in
the ground. Johanna knows that they have to get out of that evil place, but
where can they go when the violence covers the entire known world?
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Queen and Country #4
Fire Wizard
Patty Jansen
Epub v5Johanna, Roald, Nellie and Loesie return undercover
to the devastated city of Saardam. In the months since they fled, the Fire
Wizard Alexandre has ruled the town with campaigns of death and fear, focused
on the eradication of the Church of the Triune, the former state church of
Saarland that doesn't allow magic and that is more popular with the common
people than with nobles.
Johanna meets up with underground members of the church, even though her little
gift of magic makes her feel ambivalent about it. She knows that ousting
Alexandre will require a powerful magician, something she and her followers do
not have. What is more, Alexandre's men discover the group, and the band of
resistance fighters faces the showdown with the tyrant long before they're even
close to ready for it.
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Queen and Country #5
The Dragon Prince
Patty Jansen
Epub v5The tyrant Alexandre is gone from Saardam, but a
new menace has come: the eastern traders in a ship of metal that is said to
have been forged with dragon magic. They bring a chest of gold to buy an office
in the city.
The people don't want them in their town. The Church of the Triune, which
forbids magic, has increased its hold on the population, despite the Red
Baron's efforts to stamp it out.
Newly-crowned queen Johanna is staring into the empty coffers after the
extravagant spending by her husband's father before his death. King Roald is
off in the garden to catch frogs, and she faces condemnation by the church in
the knowledge that Saarland will need both money and magic to defeat the Red
Baron's army.
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Queen and Country #6
The Necromancer's Daughter
Patty Jansen
Epub v5One brave woman's struggle against magical
forces.
Queen Johanna's position in Saardam is fragile. The Barons and Kings of the countries
in the hinterland are not happy that she helped the royal family to survive and
is now about to ensure the next generation. They vow to teach this little
upstart country a lesson for once and for all.
Of course it is not so much about petty rivalry, but about access to the sea
port that connects the hinterland with the lucrative ocean trade.
Johanna knows that if it came to a fight Saardam could never survive, so she
has invited all the heads of state and other important people for talks to invest
in the city's shattered infrastructure for the benefit of all.
As a congregation of royal families gathers such as the lowlands have never
seen, the magicians travelling with the esteemed guests prepare the final and
most insidious attempt to get control of the upstart little country and its
usurper, commoner queen: through her baby daughter.
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