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Summary

The heir of a high house is trained by her mother to murder people in their sleep through dreamwalking. 

Stats

Genre: Adult high fantasy

Series length: Three books

Violence: Moderate fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Strong supernatural, some attributed to hereditary gifting, with other supernatural elements clearly delineated between good (God) and evil (witchcraft). 

Romance: Strong, but explicit expression largely kept to things like kissing.  

Christian/spiritual element: Overt allegorical elements

Recommendation: Excellent for readers who like fantasy and enemy-to-lover romances

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Opening Lines:

Cold. So cold.

Every breath came out like a faint wisp, a lingering spirit within the sanctuary, only to evaporate into the frozen air. 

​Selene pulled her fur-lined cloak tighter around her shoulders as she knelt before the priest inside the sacred halls. 

Mark of the Raven (The Ravenwood Saga, Book 1)
by Morgan L. Busse

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate.

As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy--a legacy that supports her people--or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.

Her dilemma comes to a head when she is tasked with assassinating the one man who can bring peace to the nations, but who will also bring about the downfall of her own house.

One path holds glory and power, and will solidify her position as Lady of Ravenwood. The other path holds shame and execution. Which will she choose? And is she willing to pay the price for the path chosen?

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Opening Lines:

Dark. So dark.

Selene shivered and pulled her cloak and hood closer around her shoulders. her clothes were still damp from crossing the Hyr River, and the cold wind did not help. The trees that lined Trader's Road appeared like bony fingers reaching up toward the darkening sky.  Twilight slipped across the road, blending the forest edge with the dirt path. Up above, streaks of red split the sky, as if some large animal had torn open the heavens.

Flight of the Raven (The Ravenwood Saga, Book 2)
by Morgan L. Busse

Selene Ravenwood, once the heir to House Ravenwood, is now an exile. On the run and free of her family's destiny, Selene hopes to find the real reason her family was given the gift of dreamwalking. But first she must adapt to her new life as wife to Lord Damien Maris, the man she was originally assigned to kill.

While adjusting to her marriage and her home in the north, her power over dreams begins to grow. As the strongest dreamwalker to exist in ages, her expanding power attracts not only nightmares but the attention of the Dark Lady herself.

With a war looming on the horizon and a wicked being after her gift, Selene is faced with a choice: embrace the Dark Lady's offer, or search out the one who gave her the gift of dreamwalking. One path offers power, the other offers freedom. But time is running out, and soon her choice will be made for her.

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Opening Lines:

Numb. So numb.

The only thing Selene could feel was the dull thump of her heart beating as she sat beside the window in the guest chambers the next day.

​I love you. 

Cry of the Raven (The Ravenwood Saga, Book 3)
by Morgan L. Busse

Lady Selene Ravenwood has come into her full power as a dreamwalker just as the war with the Dominia Empire begins. Working with the other Great Houses, Selene and Damien use their gifts to secure the borders and save those devastated by the war. But conflict, betrayal, and hatred begin to spread between the Great Houses, destroying their unity as the empire burns a path across their lands. At the same time, Damien Maris starts to lose his ability to raise the waters, leaving the lands vulnerable to the empire's attacks.

The only one who can unite the houses and restore her husband's power is Selene Ravenwood. But it will require that she open her heart to those who have hurt her and let go of her past, despite the one who hunts her and will do anything to stop her power.

Will Selene survive? Or is she destined to fall like the dreamwalkers before her?