Shadow Wizard, Jeffe Kennedy
Shadow Wizard, Jeffe Kennedy
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Shadow Wizard
a Dark Fantasy Romance

Author: Jeffe Kennedy

Narrator: Deborah Balm

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2022

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance


Synopsis

Spy, manipulator, traitor… He might be her only salvation.ady Seliah Phel can’t escape feeling like she’s one of those fairytale princesses awakened from a long slumber—except that her life is no romantic story and there’s no happy ending in sight. Though she has her magic and she’s been rescued from the depths of madness that consumed her since adolescence, Selly finds that the years she lost aren’t so easily recovered. Everyone treats her like the child they remember. To prove something—perhaps only to herself—she’s recklessly volunteered to stave off a host of monsters with only the enigmatically alluring, cuttingly sarcastic, and probably deceitful wizard Jadren El-Adrel for company.
Jadren isn’t the heroic type. In fact, he’s not much of anything. Relentlessly groomed into a shadow of a man by his sadistic mother, he’s the perfect spy and tool, with no real will of his own. When he’s stranded in the wilderness with Seliah Phel, he figures the outcome is immaterial. Live or die, it’s all the same to him. But Seliah is a different story and she isn’t like anyone else. Though he reminds himself she’s basically a child in a woman’s body, he finds it increasingly difficult to resist her artless charms and relentless curiosity.
As their predicament goes from dire to disastrous, Jadren realizes his many failures have jeopardized Selly’s future, perhaps her very life. Far from home and trapped without resources, Selly has only Jadren to rely upon—the one person she can’t possibly trust. There seems no possibility of rescue from their friends and family back home at House Phel, so Jadren and Selly must work together to survive… if they can.

About Jeffe Kennedy

Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning, bestselling author who writes fantasy with romantic elements and fantasy romance. She is an RWA member and serves on the Board of Directors for SFWA as a Director at Large.

She is a hybrid author, and also self-publishes a romantic fantasy series, Sorcerous Moons. Books in her popular, long-running series, The Twelve Kingdoms and The Uncharted Realms, have won the RT Reviewers' Choice Best Fantasy Romance, been named Best Book of June 2014, and won RWA's prestigious RITA® Award, while more have been finalists for those awards. She's the author of the romantic fantasy trilogy The Forgotten Empires, which includes The Orchid Throne, The Fiery Crown, and The Promised Queen.

Jeffe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine Coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards, and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on November 27, 2023

Reread note: you should read the Bounds of Magic trilogy before this book and the rest of the Renegades of Magic series. Kennedy does this thing where she spends most of Grey Magic (Bounds of Magic 3) setting up the reader to dislike a particular side character… Then she makes the side character the......more

Goodreads review by Gillian on September 29, 2022

Worth the wait I love the bonds of magic series and this doesn't disappoint. The story takes a while to find it's heart but the characters are fun and the world is interesting. I'd recommend starting with bonds of magic but you can absolutely pick it up here and enjoy. I hope you do!......more

Goodreads review by Literati Literature on October 01, 2022

BUY THIS FABULOUS BOOK!! When it comes to fantasy romance Jeffe Kennedy writing and this series has sunk it’s claws into me. Kennedy along with her world building and character development is what fantasy romance should be. Kennedy, like most great authors knows how to craft a story, a world, charac......more

Goodreads review by Carien on September 26, 2022

So good!!!......more

Goodreads review by Jen (That's What I'm Talking About) on November 07, 2022

The opening scenes of Shadow Wizard overlap slightly with previous book, Grey Magic, with Selly (Seliah) and Jadren helping Gabriel and Nic escape her captivity. They stay behind to deal with the magical hunters when Selly is taken captive by the brutal House Samerhill, and Jadren must use his Convo......more