Smoke and Steel: A Sapphic Epic Fantasy

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Secure her crown or lose her heart. 

Saritrah cannot allow herself to fall in love with the Oracle, a woman who cannot hold a spear and who hesitates to kill. Before their deaths during the insurrection, Saritrah's parents taught her three things: loyalty is greater than love, trust no one, and only the strongest deserve to live. Saritrah is on a quest to take back her kingdom, and her people need a warrior queen—not someone weakened by love.

The Oracle has given her a path back to the throne: find a lost city, obtain an ancient artifact with unimaginable power, and kill those standing in her way, even if it might set a disastrous prophecy in motion. But the insurrectionists are not her only enemies. Her brother also survived, and he wants the artifact. While Saritrah seeks to avert calamity, he is courting it.

Saritrah must give up everything—her beliefs, her vision of the future, and perhaps even her crown—if she's to save herself, her kingdom, and the Oracle.

Smoke and Steel is part of the Scions and Shadows series but can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. It is perfect for fans of Xena: Warrior Princess who enjoy morally gray lesbians on a journey of redemption with lots of action, romance, and intrigue.

Smoke and Steel is the second novel chronologically in the Scions and Shadows series. 

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Rep, Main Character: Lesbian, C-PTSD, Polyamory

Rep, Secondary: Bisexual / Sapphic, Non-Binary, Aromantic,  He/Him Lesbian, Lesbian, C-PTSD, Polyamory 

Cover Art: GetCovers.com

Interior Illustrations: Liz Sauco

Editing: Ingrid Moon

Word Count: 100,000

Page Count: ~~425 pages

Original Release Date: May 31st, 2024

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2024 Indie Ink Award Nominations:

• Best morally gray character,
• Best setting,
• WTFWN: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation,
• WTFWN: Disability Representation by a disabled author,
• WTFWN: LGBTQ+ Representation,
• WTFWN: Mental Health Representation

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