New Book! Alora's Tear, Vol. V: The Glittering World
After seven long years of work, the next volume in the Alora’s Tear series is finally ready! For those who prefer paperbacks, I’ll have the first copies available at the CHS Craft Fair on November 15th, and in Moscow at the Winter Market on December 13th.
Stop by, say hello, and pick up what has been by far the hardest book I’ve had to write. I can’t wait to see you.
If you can’t make it to either event, please order from my Etsy shop (where I can sign them before I send them to you) or ask BookPeople of Moscow about the series.
The book will be available on Amazon, but I humbly ask, if you are able, to avoid purchasing it there. Copies sold on Amazon must be priced higher than other options only for me to receive approximately one dollar (!) per sale.
For those who prefer digital, you’ll be able to find The Glittering World on Apple Books, Kobo, and Amazon later this month.
Below, you’ll find—once again—the masterful artwork of Isis Sousa portraying not only the cover’s featured character, Elise, but also a look at the Glittering World itself. Isis has outdone herself again. I am in love with this cover art, and I know many of you will be too.
Please enjoy the back cover text as well, unless you’re like me and prefer to let the book tell its story on its own terms.
A Growing Darkness in a World of Lights
On the rim of the Cold Valley shine stars enough for two skies; one above and one below. The Breaker and the Mender reach out to one another across the clouds while a splay of constellations encircle their everlasting dance. But, the second set are no stars at all. They are the thousands upon uncountable thousand lights of a city so great it encompasses all the world Askon has ever known. Somewhere in that city is the woman from the visions, somewhere in that city is Alora.
They all know it now to be true. Finding her is a matter of only where, and when.
None knows it better than Elise, her mind filled with fading images of Thomas’s face, stricken and wild as they dragged him away. She will chew the shadow of herself down to nothing to find him. Each step, each overturned stone brings her closer to the final confrontation with the one who took him from her, the one who hurt him: Sehlín.
Elsewhere, the stars shine on, over Edward king of Vladvir, over John of Dalstone, over sable-gray falcon wings, and Dansil of Finnestre. When the sun rises, an army of Norill will gather, their mouths silent, their hands set singly upon the commands of a cruel master, whose eyes watch as daybreak washes over the Glittering World.