This Delicate Flame

"The day the assassin came to Rylla's door, she sighed, rolled up her sleeves, and grabbed her healing kit."

Rylla Stirkiv likes her life. She likes her little house on the outskirts of a quiet village. She likes the magical forest where any herb she could want grows, and where magic from the Rend splitting her planet in two turns the leaves rainbow colors.

She does not like the hardened assassin that arrives bleeding on her doorstep.

Tarinne is the antithesis of Rylla. She's brash, headstrong, and abrasive. Her skin is marked with more scars than Rylla has ever seen in her life. What's more, she kills people, while Rylla is sworn to do the opposite. But as she nurses Tarinne back to health, the two women discover they have more in common than they thought, and that maybe, just maybe, Tarinne likes the slower life that Rylla leads.

It's too bad the king Tarinne is sworn to has other ideas...

This Delicate Flame is the first book in the Rendworld Trilogy, a new sapphic romantasy by Avery Carter.