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Autumn Queens & Shadows
2023
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4.23
Average Rating
270
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In a god-blessed realm where old ghosts lay resting but not gone, Thora remains the most haunted. Now queen of Isjord, she’s helped her kingdom thrive back into its once glorious days that old kings had tarnished with greed and a need for power. For ten years, Thora has ruled with a steady reign, but one that has always been doubted by a few who still wish to see old kings take her throne. When the new queen of the Islines rises to lay claim on Isjord as a true heir of pure Krigborn blood, many begin taking her side. The old will fight the new. And the new will face the old, which was buried in shallow graves. Much will be at stake as Iskyla Krigborn begins crawling through the foundations that Thora tried hard to set. But the closer they get to her, the darker and thicker the shadows around her become, the nearer and angrier their master grows. Strangers once friends now become allies who will raise ice and the dead as aid to the new threats of war. While peace slips away into the hands of greed, which Ice Queen will lose control of it first?

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Author

Wendy Heiss
Wendy Heiss
Author · 11 books

Wendy Heiss is a indie author debuting with a new adult fantasy trilogy. Winter Gods & Serpents is the first book in The Auran Chronicles releasing autumn 2021. She has graduated with honours in Forensics Science in the United Kingdom, but literature has been one of her passions since she could manage to read and write. Despite being severely tempted to ride the Agatha Christie route to crime novels, she chose to follow the Tolkien path to fantasy. She forwent fingerprint powder for ball pen ink inevitably forgoing her parents hope for a good life and becoming what they always feared...a figuratively starving artist. Any whom and how, she likes cats, coffee, particularly that cr*p from instant sachets. Claims to despise mafia romance from the pits of her gall bladder but will probably end up writing one herself to try and outwrite the greatest line in history: Are you alright babygirl. Also, fried sweet potatoes, she can definitely eat some of those without claiming to be allergic to yet another vegetable. On that last note before straying too far from a simple bio, please read her book.

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