Sherwood Smith
Read Crown & Court Duel by Sherwood Smith (aka sartorias) last night. What interests me most about this is that even though the books were published AFTER her & Trowbridges Exordium series some of the similarities between Vidanric and Brandan Arkad. Also between the court scenes in the 2nd book and many of the High Dolloi sequences in the Rifter's Covenant the 4th book in the other series. And the author notes at the end make me think that the concepts for these books came before the partnered novels...