Dear AGENT:
When the blood rain fell upon Valorn, LUKASSA had no choice but to plunge a dagger into her sister’s heart. Hours later, she was claimed as the child ward of Azkath’s Liege Lady of the Hilt, swearing never to speak of the genocide enacted on her people.
As the last of the Valorn, Lukassa navigates the desert kingdom’s matriarchal court under the goddesses Sun, Sky, and Moon. Here she becomes the begrudging confidant of the Liege Lady’s daughter, Reha, a devout follower of Azkath’s Rites. Reha embraces Lukassa like a sister, while Lukassa quietly spurns her ignorance of Azkath’s crimes. But when Lukassa summons her dead sister’s dagger to save a conduit of the Moon Goddess, she reveals a forbidden claim over the Rites. Banished from the palace, she narrowly escapes Azkath.
Ten years later, Lukassa has built a new life in the mountain clans along Azkath’s borders, until an old ally of her sister’s reveals the truth about Valorn’s downfall: the Sky Goddess organized the slaughter and concealed its true origins. Lukassa’s sister devoted her life to preserving the other goddesses, sealing her spirit to Lukassa’s in the moments before her death. Determined to continue her sister’s work and prevent Sky’s next genocide, Lukassa returns to Azkath in disguise. There she reunites with Reha, who has resigned her faith after making her own horrific discoveries about Azkath’s past. Together, Lukassa and Reha confront the truth of the last decade and their strained relationship. Lukassa realizes that remembering the rain is no longer enough: she must rely on her former enemies, even if it means wielding the same power that destroyed her people.
GHOSTS OF VALORN is a 105,000-word adult epic fantasy. It combines the clashing ideologies of C.L. Clark’s Magic of the Lost trilogy with Tasha Suri’s politicized magic systems and Rachel Gillig’s haunting prose.
I am a technical writer with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Psychology from the University of --. My interest in cultural psychology influenced the fusion of Norse and Arabic-inspired cultures in GHOSTS OF VALORN. My poetry and short fiction have appeared in The Kiosk Magazine and Cut To The Bone Publishing.
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