Across the top is a banner announcing “Book Five of Servants of the Moon and Sun” in a clean silvery white font.
Against a deep red background with ominous dark thorny trees and fog, an armored knight dressed all in black and wearing a silver helm and breastplate rides a black horse, which is also armored at the head and body. The knight holds a crossbow loaded with a bright silver bolt in his right hand. The book’s title is placed under the mounted knight in large silver letters in a fantasy font with thorn serifs. The author’s name is centered below that over two lines in a smaller clean silvery white font.
Welcome the 5th book in the Servants of the Moon and Sun series. Queen of Thorns is a direct sequel to Mother of Exiles and part of the Exile Forest arc of the series.
Blurb
Trigger Warnings: Mentions of abuse and SA, nothing graphic on the page. War, death, and grief.
A Fantasy Adventure Story of Oppressed People Standing Firm Against Tyranny
Join Canin and his party of fellow Elenite (half-Human, half-Fairy) Thorn Brothers and Thorn Maidens as they complete their revenge mission in a nearby Human village.
They’re after a man who killed his wife years before. Canin had sworn to protect the wife, and was trying to help her escape to the safety of the Exile Forest. The husband also led a group who massacred those from the Forest who came looking for Canin when he fled in shame (leading to him meeting Talia and her party in Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm, Book One of this series).
After they find their vengeance, accompany them as they rescue a sizeable group of weary and wary displaced Human women and children and convince the group to trust them and accompany them home to the Exile Forest.
Sadly, not everything is as it seems in the Sanctuary village once they arrive. There’s a traitor in their midst!
War with the Human King and his Lions (evil Elenite blood users) is about to break out, and, as usual, Canin and his wife (the Fairy soldier Spearhead) find themselves in the middle of all the conflict, fighting for a safe home for their adopted daughter, the ever-growing baby Aurora.
Bio
Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann has been writing since childhood, and has a B.A. in writing from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in Bradford, PA. He has lived in Columbia, SC for more than twenty years with his wife and editor, Jay-Jay Flanagan-Grannemann, and a coterie of cats. Joel has a day job in back room operations at a major national retail chain where he has worked in various capacities since 1995.
Links and things
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239143899-queen-of-thorns
Artist 100covers.com
Twitter: @ServantsAnd
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Email: Joel@ServantsoftheMoonandSun.com
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