![The Defiant Heir by Melissa Caruso](https://i0.wp.com/www.fantasybookcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TheDefiantHeir.png?fit=120%2C185&ssl=1)
Today’s guest is fantasy author Melissa Caruso! Her Venetian-inspired debut novel, The Tethered Mage, is the story of a young noblewoman who accidentally breaks the rules to save her city—and accidentally binds herself to a fire mage while doing so. It was one of my favorite books of 2017, largely due to these two women and the fantastic world, and I ended up staying up until 2:00 one morning finishing it since I could not put it down. The second […]
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