Inspired by The Hobbit, Wings in the Valley takes the cozy vibes of Legends & Lattes on the road in an enemies-to-lovers romance that slow-burns across the continent and back, as our heroes learn some problems can’t be solved with swords or sorcery.
After losing his hoof in a harpy attack, Feliks Redwine, a faun of the Redwine Tribe has devoted himself to defending his tribe’s vineyard from the nightly harpy raids. When a fire-breathing dragon appears without warning and crashes into the harpy’s mountain roost, obliterating the flock, the fauns celebrate the resounding end of the conflict between the hoof folk and their winged adversaries—until the dragon’s smoke casts their farmland into perpetual shadow.
To save his people, Feliks leaves the valley in search of a hero to slay the dragon poisoning their homeland. Unbeknownst to him, he has company on his journey. Honey Rabbit, the sole surviving harpy, has no nest and no flock elders to guide him. Overhearing the fauns’ plan to rid the valley of the dragon gives Honey the chance for revenge where there was once only loneliness and grief.
Faun and harpy strike a deal: Honey will protect Feliks on the road, and Feliks will find somewhere safe for Honey to live and raise his flock’s last egg. With Honey’s help, maybe Feliks can save his people—if he can lay an old grudge to rest, and not break an egg before it has a chance to hatch.
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Cover by Arden Powell.
A slave has nothing, not even a name—or so believed the slave in holding cell #33, until he was whisked away from the upcoming auction in a suspicious, pre-empt sale to a cherubic young man in glittering finery named Isaac. In a world where slaves suffer and die without consequence to their keepers, what horrors did Isaac have in mind that he felt the need to hide?
Isaac reveals that he isn’t just rich, he’s royalty—and he wants to kill the king. Though not inclined to lose his head on the executioner's block, our narrator is won over by the allure of a future without slavery… Sleeping with Isaac is just a perk.
Their affair swings from the palace kitchens, to the jousting arena, to the throne room, creeping ever closer to the king himself, forcing the lovers into ever riskier—and risque—positions. But can true love exist in the absence of freedom? And can a slave conditioned only to obey ever have what it takes to seize not only the course of his own fate—but an entire kingdom’s?
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Cover by Perrin of The Author Buddy.
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