Bones of the Gods duology

In the kingdom of Iskrendour, magic is anathema. Only the Crows are permitted their engineered shape-shifting—and only then, for the good of the kingdom, where they act as spies and assassins for the Crown.

As a Crow, Fenn has been taught her life holds no meaning outside of service to the king. When he sends her and Bastien, the surly, devilishly handsome scout who owes her a life debt, on a secret mission to infiltrate the kingdom of Maehryth, she believes her task to be both righteous and straightforward—it is for the Crown, after all, and the king’s orders are above all else.

But before she can complete her assignment, Fenn is confronted with a series of revelations about the truth of her task and her heritage. Her mission is thrown off course by her pursuit for answers and the certainty that her destiny is larger than spying for the king. Her choices are complicated further by the strange attraction she feels toward both Bastien and the woman he’s oath-bound to serve.

The gods have their fingers in her destiny and she must find a way to choose between her loyalty to duty and her heart. Her past and the secrets buried there are the keys to saving not just Iskrendour but the whole continent of Araspeyha from ruin at the hands of a power-hungry man who seeks the complete abolition of magic.

Following the resurrection of Ixphae, the Lady of Storm, Fenn is charged by the gods to wake her people and stop the evil her half-brother intends to unleash. With the bonds she'd forged now in tatters, she journeys across land and sea, seeking a way to rouse her ancestors.

Deep in the Night Territories, at the temple where the Harpies perished, a prophecy leads Fenn further from home and closer to lands she'd never dreamt of traversing. Aided by her brother and hastened by news of a sickness overtaking the people of Iskrendour, she takes to the deserts in search of lost gods.

But there is no clear origin or cure to the illness striking down those Fenn holds dear, and to save them—her home, her flock—Fenn will sacrifice anything. Even her obedience to the gods.