Chronicles of Aronshae Series by J.K. Barber

Spellbound is about the adventures of two young people, twin sisters who have known community and family their entire lives. Along the way, they befriend a mysterious stranger who has been alone for as long as he can remember. After strange events touch all their lives, the three find themselves drawn together and then embroiled in a plot to overthrow the Kingdom of Illyander by an ancient enemy long thought dead... moreSpellbound is about the adventures of two young people, twin sisters who have known community and family their entire lives. Along the way, they befriend a mysterious stranger who has been alone for as long as he can remember. After strange events touch all their lives, the three find themselves drawn together and then embroiled in a plot to overthrow the Kingdom of Illyander by an ancient enemy long thought dead. As they journey through the world of Aronshae on their quest for answers, even more questions are raised as they find out more about each other, themselves and their strange emerging powers. less

The Ice Queen’s attack on the royal city of Aiersga thwarted, Sasha, Katya and Jared, along with their companions have only a moment’s respite before they are forced to turn their attention towards regaining Snowhaven, the twin’s birthplace and strategic foothold of the Ice Queen’s campaign to destroy the peaceful Kingdom of Illyander... moreThe Ice Queen’s attack on the royal city of Aiersga thwarted, Sasha, Katya and Jared, along with their companions have only a moment’s respite before they are forced to turn their attention towards regaining Snowhaven, the twin’s birthplace and strategic foothold of the Ice Queen’s campaign to destroy the peaceful Kingdom of Illyander. However, Salamasca, the Empress of Ice, has plans within plans and winning one battle against the sorceress monarch does not mean victory in the war against her evil crusade. With the help of her newly created draconian allies, her schemes take a devastatingly dangerous turn for the people of Illyander threatening to crush the land under her eldritch might. Will the bold strategy of King Morgan to attack the Queen in Snowhaven and in her place of power, The Ice Palace, be enough to finally destroy the Ice Queen once and for all or has Salamasca grown powerful enough to see her plans to fruition, encasing Illyander in her icy grasp forever? less

The Ice Queen is on the run. Routed from her glacial palace in the frozen North, Salamasca has fled to the Eastern Kingdoms to lick her wounds and gather her strength once more. Illyander is recovering from the Empress of Ice’s rampage and slowly Snowhaven has been rebuilt. But while the Ice Queen lives, she is a threat to all who walk Aronshae... moreThe Ice Queen is on the run. Routed from her glacial palace in the frozen North, Salamasca has fled to the Eastern Kingdoms to lick her wounds and gather her strength once more. Illyander is recovering from the Empress of Ice’s rampage and slowly Snowhaven has been rebuilt. But while the Ice Queen lives, she is a threat to all who walk Aronshae. No one knows this better than Master Swordswoman Sasha Ironwright, and her twin sister Katya, Mistress of the Sorcerous arts, blessed and cursed by the Great Mother with the power of her avatar Akor’shi-kai. So, Jared, Talas and the Ironwright twins journey to the mysterious East, a land filled with strange peoples and even stranger customs, to end Salamasca’s menace once and for all. In the meantime, the Ice Queen has reunited with her old mentor Luzige and her reanimated servant Roane to raise an army of Easterners to crush Illyander and bring all of Aronshae under her heel. Will the Illyanders be in time to stop the Ice Queen’s rise to power or are they only rushing to their own deaths at the hands of an even more powerful adversary? Gathering allies and enemies along their way, the Illyanders hope to finally end the menace of the Empress of Ice once and for all, knowing all the while that victory or defeat will mean the death of the twins as they are consumed by the power of Akor’shi-kai. Meanwhile, the dragons have returned…. less