A Dark Moon Rises: Book 2 of the Dark Lords of Epthelion

Epthelion's Great War has ended. Having slain the sorcerer Ryadok and routed the demon empowering him, Arris Marchant relinquishes his Arganian commission, marries Merewyn, the warrior queen of Ha-Ran-Fel, and settles in the foothills above the new colony of Teptiel. Meanwhile, Melinda Greene, niece of Arris's former confederate, Edwin, flees to Teptiel to escape an arranged marriage and, to her joy, meets and marries the man of her dreams. But evil never dies. The demon returns for Arris's head and Melinda, trapped in a loveless union, discovers her new husband married her for a single horrifying reason. Stripped of his mystical power, Arris must face, as a mortal, the demon who threatens them both.