
Genre:
Fantasy
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Danger / In Peril / On the Run
Found Family
Saving the World
Supernatural Elements
Wartime
Heat Level:
None (no sex or physical intimacy at all)
Archetypes:
Ghost / Spirit
Knight
Military
Royalty / Aristocrat
Soldier / Warrior
Geographic Location:
Fantasy or Fictional Setting
Ocean / Sea
Setting:
Boat / Cruise Ship
Castle / Palace
Kingdom / Realm
Seaside / Beach
War Zone / Battlefield
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Duchess Rampant
Lesfic Bard Award
The Seven Realms of Ar'rothi, Book 3
By Alison Naomi Holt
Epic Battles, Sea-Faring Ships, and a Daring Rescue. If you're looking for sapphic fantasy adventure, this is it!
The Duchess of Danforth waits on a beach near Port Emnal in front of her three-thousand troops. As the waves lap against the hooves of her battle mare, Lioth, she watches the enemy ships deploying more warriors against her than she’d ever thought possible.
She’s known as a great warrior and tactician. This time, however, victory may prove an insurmountable task.
But wrestling victory from defeat is only the beginning. The real attack is one that, if successful, will defeat her Anacafrian king more surely than an arrow driven through his heart.
You are invited to enter Ar’rothi, a world as vividly realized as Narnia or Middle Earth, a world where animal spirits guide humans towards enlightenment, and in which an orphaned girl and a warrior duchess must join forces against an evil that threatens everything they have learned to love.