The Rival and the Rescue

While Samira anxiously awaits the Phoenix Designation Ceremony, her day-trip to the river beach doesn’t go as expected in this YA epic fantasy.

Read this prequel story to the Phoenix Empress series to learn more about Samira and Tajamar’s relationship prior to The Archivist and the Knife.

Publish date: 2nd October 2023

The Archivist and the Knife

Refusing to accept a position under her childhood rival, Samira opts instead to leave the Tindersands Family and take on the role of Imperial Archivist. Thrown out of her home for her betrayal, she must learn more about the role she chose in anger. What had once been an important position, has languished in the decades the Phoenix throne has lain empty.

Tajamar can’t understand why she would throw away all she’s worked towards because he was chosen first. The golden boy of the Tindersands Family, Samira is the only person to ever challenge him or get on his nerves. Happy the thorn in his side has left, he looks forward to enjoying the favour of his new position.

Meanwhile, servants turn up missing their shadows, ignored by the five families battling each other for supremacy in their Council. The empty throne looms as the prize over them all. Both Samira and Tajamar hunt for an explanation. Can they trust each other for long enough to bring the truth to light?

Exploring the hidden archives, Samira must draw on all her skills to weave a way between the familial politics, crystal magic, and uncertain alliances. Finding herself at the centre of a conspiracy, she must call on friends and enemies to help save the Empire. Before stories that should never have been forgotten repeat themselves.

Publish date: 26th May 2024

The Archivist and the Feather

Samira became the archivist to get away from her arrogant rival, Tajamar. But now she’s ordered to let him live with her, she must do all she can to stop him from learning her secrets. She can’t risk him discovering what’s really going on in the Emperor’s Palace, not while his loyalty still lies with her previous Family.

But as Tajamar spends more time in the archive, he starts to question everything he’s been taught about the five Families and what they stand for. When Samira is attacked by the mysterious shadow-stealers he finds himself wanting to protect the empire and it’s determinedly independent archivist.

Can Samira and Tajamar put the past behind them and learn to trust each other? Or will the divide between them, and the different Families, allow the shadow stealers to gain the one thing which will give them the empty throne?

The Archivist and the Feather is the second installment in the epic fantasy Phoenix Empress Series. If you love political intrigue, crystal magic, mythological creatures, and a just kisses rivals to lovers romance, read The Phoenix Empress books today!

Publish date: 15th June 2025

The Archivist and the Crown

Lost in the mountains with a newly hatched phoenix, Samira knows trouble is brewing. She needs to find a way home, while keeping her new companion a secret. Though she’d thwarted their plan to capture the phoenix chick, the shadow stealers on their trail won’t be far behind. And Garnet is still too young to defend herself.

Wounded and disorientated, Tajamar wakes in the caves with vague memories of Samira rescuing him, but the only sign of her is the knife resting in his lap and a bag of papers he doesn’t recognise. Hoping that means she’s fine, he returns to the archive to find her missing.

Read the final installment of Samira and Tajamar’s thrilling story.

Publish date: tbc