Scandal — Candace Lynn Talmadge

His power seeks to destroy it all. Can she rise up to stop him?The Stoneslayer paranormal fiction series charts a lost world of political scandals, explosive family secrets, and the reincarnation of a line of extraordinary women who challenge the cataclysmic rampage of an ancient, demonic foe.Book One Scandal Lt. Helen Andros is a mixed-race outcast in Azgard. Saved from death when her true parentage comes to light, she now faces the outrage of the overclass, the lethal hostility of the mighty Temple of Kronos-and a powerful, high-ranked father she neither knows nor trusts.Steering a volatile personal journey with her stranger parent, Helen is stalked. Will a hidden menace-the deadly Stoneslayer-plunder the mysterious green gem she inherited from her mother? Will political necessity bind her in marriage to a man she does not love and who cannot love her back?