Dynasty of the Sky by L. K. Handley

The story’s only just begun when Calmirre Huldin is kidnapped from her home in the eastern mountains and carried hundreds of miles away, deep into a foreign land. However, upon her arrival she discovers her captors have problems of their own.

With an overbearing mother, a scheming wife, and one hell of a legacy to follow, what’s a man to do? To get away from it all, Arjin rides away to scout along the eastern frontier of the empire he inherited, but what he finds there sets off a chain of events that threaten to bring about the destruction of all his family has striven to build.