The Hearth-Rooms

When Lord Carrow flees to Booty Bay and his son disappears into Old Town, Lady Imogen Carrow is left under house arrest in a half-emptied house on Cathedral Square, with three servants and a Royal Guardsman, Garrick Tolliver, from Redridge. The Square has stopped sending cards and invitations. Her

Alterac is gone, sold to the Horde by its own king and swallowed by Lordaeron in the years after the Second War. Lady Mirela Valcourt, carrying a thin thread of the traitor's blood, is on the run from the Syndicate lord her family sold her to. When an exiled

Lady Catrin Ardmore speaks for her house at King Aldwin's court in Stromgarde. She is very good at it. Sir Corwin Fletcher is the King's Blade, a landless knight who sees treachery coming before anyone else in the hall does. The king has made him her guard. He

Corvane has fallen, and the treaty that ended the war names its Princess Miranda in the third clause as bride, between the grain levies and the disbanding of the Royal Guard. Miranda was raised to read a room before anything else, and at the conqueror's banquet she reads one

The same hall, the same treaty, and the same princess refusing the same food, wine, chair, and dance. But this time the chair at Averion Dawnmere's right hand is not empty. Knight-Marshal Hadren Fallow, the King's Blade, led the night assault on Covane's walls, and his

Lady Ithriel Silverbough has slipped out of her father's house for every festival in Silvermoon and Captain Thalorin Ashgrove has followed her to every one. He is the steward's son and the captain of her father's guard. She has always thought of him as a dear friend

Bastion cast Haniel out for keeping the one thing it told her to give up. She falls burning through the roof of Exulien's hall during the anima drought, carrying more light than his starving court has seen in a year. He catches her bare-handed and lets it burn

Lady Melisande Cresse is twenty and engaged to the heir of House Blackthorne, until he tells her he loves someone else and offers to keep her as his mistress instead. His uncle has a better offer. Duke Alistair Blackthorne is thirty-eight, a Marshal of Stormwind, and he proposes marriage

Honora Pellham was sold north to clear her father's debts. The Admiralty wanted Torin Galloway, the bastard blade of Stormsong and his father's newly made heir, bound to an old southern name. He rode to war on their wedding night. Eight months later, he comes home, badly wounded

Sir Damien Emberblade is sworn to Lady Evalina Ravelle, which should make her younger sister, Seraphine, none of his concern. Then Lord Julian Hale comes courting Sera, half on her sister's word and half on rumor, and Damien is set to chaperone. He is very good at guarding a

Lady Evalina Ravelle has always been the sensible sister, the one who keeps everyone else's life in order. When Sera turns down Lord Julian Hale, his father arranges a match with Evalina instead, and she accepts it the way she accepts everything: as work to be done. Julian is

Goldshire, in Elwynn Forest, across one year from high summer to the next. The Kingdom of Stormwind is at peace, and nothing in the story is tied to a war. Florence Miller, the baker's daughter, has lit her father's oven at two every morning since she was eleven.

Pulo, a small island off the coast of the Krasarang Wilds, in the Mists of Pandaria era, after the Alliance and the Horde have carried their war ashore. Mutya's people fish and dive for pearls. The war is not theirs. When she pulls a half-drowned Kul Tiran sailor

Talenna Larethian is a Blood Knight with a temper and Silvermoon City says her uncle is shoving her off on anyone who will take her. Since every door is closed, the one who'll take her is Rhovan Isendril, a void-touched exile holding a crumbling keep on the Ghostlands

Six years after the Void broke against the walls of Silvermoon City, Quel'Thalas is still sealing the last rifts. Farstrider Faeryn Larethian, home on leave after six years in the Twilight Highlands, is handed an order to bring in Caelthir the Unbidden, a demon hunter who took the Void

On the Ghostlands coast of Midnight-era Quel'Thalas, where the land has healed but the sea still sends up things from the deep, Lord-General Esren Sunmourn agrees to marry the youngest Larethian girl because the Regent Lord asks it, and makes her a promise: a fine house in