Janeen Ippolito is two authors for the price of one! She creates writing resources and writes speculative fiction with monsters, misfits, and mushy stuff. – Kat Heckenbach, author of paranormal romance Relent and magical adventure The Toch Island Chronicles Looking forward to experiencing more of this series!

What made me stay in love were the characters, each with an intriguing history, and the rich story world, filled with original magic and mechanics. Steampunk with dragon-human shifters–that concept was all it took for me to fall in love with Lawless in the first chapter. Dark secrets surface as Kesia delves deeper–secrets that challenge the facts of her crime and undermine the war itself.Ī steampunk fantasy adventure with a side of quirky romance and snark. If only she knew what ‘betrothed’ and ‘arranged marriage’ meant.īut human social customs are the least of her worries. In exchange, Kesia must pretend to be his betrothed so Shance can escape an arranged marriage. Eager to discover what–and who–blew up his vessel, he agrees to help Kesia and Zephryn infiltrate High Command. Still searching for answers, Kesia and Zephryn flee to the human military capital, where Captain Shance Windkeeper has been furloughed after the destruction of his airship. When her dragon overlords deny any involvement, she and her tactical partner Zephryn Nightstalker try to investigate–and are sentenced to death. The same mysterious green smoke that was present the night of Kesia’s crime. Then a rogue mission to spy on a new airship explodes into sickening green smoke. The saving of humans and dragons lies within a convicted murderer.ĭragonshifter Kesia Ironfire has one goal-to redeem her past by serving the cruel dragon Pinnacle as a soldier in the dragon-human war. There’s a new book out TODAY, on my dear little sister’s birthday, that you have to read! Disclaimer: I haven’t read it yet, but I got to sit in the room while the author, Janeen Ippolito, brainstormed parts of the main character, and I am excited about it! Mine arrived in my Kindle app today, so you can read it with me!

Lawless by Janeen Ippolito