Books by Michelle Diener

Daughter of the Sky

Daughter of the Sky is set during the Victorian era in Zululand at the outbreak of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck off the Zululand coast, fifteen year-old Elizabeth Jones knows the cold, grey life ahead of her in England and refuses to return, embracing life with the Zulus, the people of the sky. Six years later, when the British Empire under Queen Victoria forces the Zulu kingdom into war, she spies for her adopted people in a place no one would guess a spy could be--within the British camp.

Fighting the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape has made Captain Jack Burdell cynical about the Empire's justification for violent suppression. Assigned with his regiment to the invasion of Zululand, Jack spends his free time reading his father's journalized account of his experiences in the Second Sikh War. As his superior officers draw up their war strategies against the Zulus, Jack cannot help but see an echo of the past in the British forces arrogance and contempt for their enemy.

Jack sees through Elizabeth's disguise as a young soldier, but he believes her story of searching for her brother and protects her from discovery by letting her stay as his valet, sleeping in his tent. Captivated by her, Jack has no idea he is harbouring a dangerous spy. And as the two armies move towards their inevitable clash, Elizabeth and Jack find both their hearts and their lives caught in the crossfire.

Timeless

Being made to walk the plank isn't the best introduction to the 19th century, but 21st century girl Susie Leblanc is about to prove that love, honour and courage are TIMELESS.

Susie's present day murder at the hands of a madman plummets her not into the after-life but into 1805. Landing on the deck of a ship in the midst of a sea battle between the English and the French, she falls from violence to more violence. Her dramatic escape from an English frigate leads her to a new life in Spain, but there is far more in store for her than lying low and licking her wounds.

Xavier McCullen's capture by the Combined Fleet of France and Spain should have resulted in his immediate exchange for a valuable captured French captain. Instead he finds himself languishing in a Spanish prison, and comes to realize he is trapped in a web of lies and intrigue. Never would he have dreamed he'd be rescued by the witch who he made to walk the plank.

Caught up in Xavier's quest to clear his name of treason while trying to come to grips with the loss of everything familiar, Susie finds herself face to face with her murderer again, and with a choice to make. Save Xavier from certain death, or get the revenge she's dreamed of since the moment her killer pulled the trigger.

Dark Secrets

Secrets can be dangerous.

Lily Kallis thought keeping the secret of Jamie of Heralat’s shape shifting endangered her life. She knew keeping his father’s secrets did. And she was right. But now that she and Jamie are on the run from his older brother, Lily has two more problems. An attraction to Jamie’s guardian, with all the complications that involves, and something even more disturbing. The growing certainty that Jamie isn’t always himself. That eyes other than his own look back at her. That Jamie is possessed.

So with every step they take away from home, Lily has to ask herself, who is making the decisions, and where, exactly are they going?

Sorcery

Since she was sixteen, Illa has dreamed of one man. Searing dreams, erotic and tantalizing. Torn between two worlds, her quiet farm life with her parents and the wild power of sorcery her aunt teaches her, she confides her dreams in no one. Until one night the man of her dreams arrives injured at her door. At last she can reveal the passion that has consumed her for three years. Except, this man is a prince, and he doesn't believe her.

Her dream love may have clay feet, and Illa may be consumed with pain and a feeling of betrayal, but as she looks in his eyes, she is struck by the most powerful premonition. Like it or not, if she doesn't find a way to be installed in his castle, disaster will be the only result. And as he won't take her with him voluntarily, Illa has only one option . . . sorcery.