The Knightess of the Realm Series

Serious, funny, and spell-binding: you will fall in love with these characters!

Just FYI - the Knightess of the Realm series is going to be published as a series of MINI-SERIES. Covers and titles are in the process of being updated. The idea is to give some amount of CLOSURE to each phase of the story.
A Not-So-Simple Mission is now Book One of the Heir's Journey.

And we're splitting off the non-fiction and fiction - you'll see the fiction under Mangala McNamara (Kerridwen McNamara will be for non-fiction only). The point of this is to make it easier for you to find exactly what you're looking for - sorry it's a bit messy while things are re-organized!]

Ten thousand years of planning, and it all comes down to one young woman...

House Metreedi selects the leaders of its mercantile empire based not on lineage, but ability – and most particularly the ‘ability’ to ‘think sideways,’ leaving a trail of ‘creative destruction’ in their wake. For ten thousand years they have used these skills to protect the Turquoise Empire – and now its remnants and descendants – under a Divine Onus.

Sixteen-year-old Karana has shown a talent for ‘sideways thinking’ since her earliest years and The Family expects her to follow her father as the Head of House Metreedi. Her own ambition is to follow her mother as a legendary sea-captain for The Family… and her entirely secret dream is to own her own ship free of any schedule or fleet and explore beyond the Merutian Sea.

Her parents’ murder by an Evil Wizard sets in motion a series of events that take her in directions even this ‘sideways thinker’ could never have imagined, beginning with becoming a knight in the northern king’s court where women are expected to merely sit and embroider.

Old assumptions and attitudes watch out! ‘Hurricane Karana’ is passing through!