Queenâ€™s Rising & Queenâ€™s Resistance By Rebecca Ross: 2 Books - Paperback

Titles in this set:\n \n\n 1. The Queen's Rising\n\n 2. The Queen's Resistance\n\n Description:\n \n\n The Queen's Rising\n\n Brienna is an arden, a student of the five passions - art, music, wit, dramatics and knowledge. On the summer solstice in her seventeenth year, she hopes to become mistress of the passion - one who has mastered her area of study. But Brienna knows that she was not granted a coveted place at her passion-house because of talent, like her arden-sisters. She is here because someone wished her hidden.\n\n Brienna has never learned her father's identity. All she knows is that her mother was Valenian - from the land of elegance, etiquette and learning - and her father was Maevan. Brienna has never set foot in Maevana, but knows it is a wild, windswept place, fiercely proud of its ancient heritage of magical warrior queens - yet now suffering under the rule of a tyrannical king.\n\n Then Brienna begins to have visions: the inherited memories of a long-dead Maevan an.