Ankaret Wells: 3 books

I sink down on one knee. The purple and black vines embroidered on my skirts spread elegantly out around me. "Your Grace of Coranza," I say with a little inclination of my head. "Will you do me the honour of accepting my hand in marriage?" For a long moment, the Duke doesn't answer me. I'm beginning...

Tzenni Boccamera wasn't a soldier or a diplomat. She was an engineer. But when Tzenni's sister Catha was captured by soldiers from a rival Spire, there was no one else to go to Catha's rescue. Tzenni didn't expect the rescue to involve a sarcastic bodyguard, a plot to bring down the Spire, or an alien species. And she certainly hadn't meant to fall in love...

For six hundred and fifty years, the lost colony of Requite has had no contact with the wider universe. Now, a wanted criminal makes a forced landing on Requite – and is taken prisoner by a foul-mouthed, xenoraptor-riding bandit with problems of her own. He wants to get back to civilisation. She wants...