The Gray Sheep: The Lochsmith Book I - Hardcover

After her father's poor health forces him to retire, Cosette Argant proudly continues his trade, forging a reputation as Marenburg's first female jeweler. But when Tearnan warships attack her coastal home and turn its narrow streets and ancient walled Quarters into a brutal battlefield, the rippling violence destroys nearly everything Cosette and her family have built. She fears losing her father, too, and enacts a desperate plan to cross the war-torn city to reach him.

While smuggling herself through occupied territory, she is mistaken for a spy and captured by the Tearnan army. Now a prisoner, Cosette is caught in a struggle between enemy factions intent on using her for their own ends. Her only hope of release, and of reaching her father, is to cooperate with the invaders. But as the fighting intensifies, it becomes increasingly difficult to cooperate without betraying the home-and the people-she loves, until she's finally faced with a choice she never expected to have to make.

Written with the feel of historical fiction but the immersive world-building and intrigue of an epic fantasy, The Gray Sheep is the first book in the Lochsmith series; an intimate story of one ordinary woman's experience with war and the impact a single civilian can have on a continent-wide conflict.