Wildfire

Sarah
Micklem brings her lush prose and rich imagination to the second
installment of this epic trilogy, set in an imaginary world as real as
history and as marvelous as legend.

Sire Galan has forbidden his
servant and lover Firethorn to follow him to war, but she disobeys, and
sets sail with the army of Corymb to the land of Incus. During the
crossing, Firethorn is struck by lightning. She regains consciousness to
find her speech garbled and her memory in tatters. Despite her
injuries, others see her as blessed, for she has survived the touch of a
god, Wildfire. Priests and soldiers search her nonsensical utterances
for hidden prophecies.

In the aftermath of battle, Firethorn is
captured by the defeated king of Incus. He takes refuge in the kingdom
where Firethorn was born, a place she remembered only in dreams. There, a
world away from Galan, she discovers not only the land and language she
was born to, but a life of unexpected luxury and power. But this
privilege has a high cost, one which Firethorn may not be able to bear.