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[apho-sappho]

The Count of Black Shadows Zelda 💕💞💖 Genuinely one of my favorite Zeldas'

[authorlaurawinter]

Cover Reveal

The Bones of Crystal Sand comes April 12!! Only $0.99

https://amzn.to/37VOJgN

The makings of a Night Terror.

Raised in Valisea by the Veil Worshippers, Brela escaped the massacre of her shadow kingdom with more than just a Veil shard embedded in her collarbone. Hiding her supposedly-extinct magic is just one of the skills she’s been forced to learn while living in a kingdom where everyone is her enemy. She is the Night Terror assassin, and she will be feared across the forest.

But there is something more underneath the cold assassin. Something deeper than the shadow magic growing inside her. As her guild seeks to control her, Brela searches for more than just answers to her power, and she’ll find it in the most unlikely places… with the most unlikely people.

The Bones of Crystal Sand is a collection of six prequel stories following Brela’s adventures from Valisea and Rooke to the Crystal Desert. Discover how Brela came to be the most feared assassin in the forest, while picking up a few strays along the way.

[apho-sappho]

The thing about The Count of Black Shadows Zelda is that she can't even identify with any other Zeldas, for better or worse, because she's the only one. Link has someone to compare himself to, the Hero who trapped Ganon under the ice, but Zelda? She's alone. She's so, so alone.

Her family is dead, her royal guard is dead, everyone she's known since she was a child is dead, other than Impa.

She's been trapped within the walls of Assam since she was a child, the keeper of the triforce since her mother died.

She has no title but Maiden, no matter how desperately she clings to being her own person, she's treated as weak by everyone. Impa begs Link to save her, Count Ruguel pretends to support her, nobody acknowledges her ability to be strong on her own.

And we see that. We see that she's strong. Only 12 and she climbs down ivy on a castle wall to try to escape, walks with broken ribs, tricks Count Ruguel even.

She's SUCH an amazing character, I love her so

[authorlaurawinter]

HAPPY RELEASE DAY

The Bones of Crystal Sand is here for just $0.99

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ps you can also grab book 1 in the series fo free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DQ3CFYM

[authorlaurawinter]

Countdown: 5 days to The Curse of Broken Shadows!

Meet Elias, drawn by the beautiful and talented Emmy Scherer @really.cool.books

Elias is our favorite strength and herbal blessed assassin. Known for being a bit reckless, he has a heart of gold and is always looking out for his women. Don’t let those muscles fool you - when one of the girls at the orphanage needs their hair braided, he’s gonna drop everything to do it. 

Favorite line: “Try to keep the blood inside your body this time.”

You can meet Elias in The Curse of Broken Shadows on Amazon now (ebook coming Oct 5). 

[pigeonwit]

literally one single comment is restoring my faith in wingsies au...

[authorlaurawinter]

The Curse of Broken Shadows [Winter, Laura] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Curse of Broken Shadows

THE DOORSTOPPER IS FINALLY HERE! 

For fans of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, and Elise Kova’s Air Awakens series. Dive into this epic, enemies to lovers fantasy with magic, found family, and knives. Lots and lots of knives.

An assassin, a powerful dagger, and a magic that shouldn’t exist.

Shadow magic is extinct. The Veil Worshippers who honor the shadow god’s wall are hunted for their artifacts, including the Veil shards that break off the wall in Valisea.

Brela vows to steal it all back. With the dagger of her people and a Veil shard embedded in her collarbone that has infected her with shadow-cursed magic, she is determined to keep her secrets or suffer a fate worse than death. That was a lot easier when the uptight and infuriatingly handsome Captain Cason Valkip wasn’t hunting her.

Cason has spent his entire life hiding—from the raids on Valisea, from his emotions, and from his multiple gods-blessed magics that everyone is afraid of… everyone except Brela. The chaotic, non-magic wielding assassin who drives him insane is also the only person who has never looked at his tainted magic without any ounce of fear. Which is why being forced to work with her to discover the source of the breaking wall sets his already uncontrollable fire magic ablaze.

With tension growing in the remaining kingdoms and mythical beasts threatening her at every turn, Brela’s secrets might not remain hidden for much longer. To survive, she will have to work with the one man who could burn her.

Because if shadow hell is released, no one will be safe.