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YA Fae Fantasy Release

Today I have a new fae fantasy author to introduce you to, Michelle Barrow-Belisle. I haven't read the first book of this series yet, so I'm excited to dive in.

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To be a Fae Guardian Cover Reveal Bonus Info

Hi! It's cover reveal day for my upcoming release, To be a Fae Guardian! I wanted to give my Goodreads followers some extra love.

First, thanks to Shower of Schmidt Designs for the amazing cover. Little known fact, the first cover of the series was modified from a pre-made cover with an ice queen. Eleanor added wings, some brilliant auburn hair, and the princess turned Queen Titania came alive. For this cover, Eleanor went back into her mixing lab and created a new view of Titania. And I love the back cover image that shows Titania in front of a full moon. You can see it on my website blog post here:
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We meet some more of Titania's family members in To be a Fae Guardian. Three younger cousins who are daughters of her mother's sister. They are Gatuika, 15, Makani, 14, and Isla, 13. If you know my books you'll remember that I like to name characters after traits they have. So I wonder if you can figure out what may be special about these cousins! I'd love to hear your guesses!

Comment below with what you think about these special cousins.

Until next time, happy reading!
Tricia

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To be a Fae Guardian Cover Reveal

The cover reveal for a young adult fantasy novel entitled To Be a Fae Guardian. To be a Fae Guardian is the second book in the Realm Chronicles series.

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Kingdom of the Damned Book Sale & Spotlight

My annual Kingdom of the Damned 99 cents Amazon sale is back! Through Nov. 9, 2021, Kingdom of the Damned will be 99 cents in the US and UK and free on KU!

More about Kingdom of the Damned... a historical vampire fantasy...

In writing my Kingdom Journals young adult urban fantasy series it became obvious that a back story for Anne (Alena’s mother) and Sonya (evil witch enemy) would be both super cool and give more context to the battle our trinity of witches Alena, Camille, and Hunter were up against.

Nestled between books 3 and 4, Kingdom of Honor and Kingdom of War, I inserted Kingdom of the Damned, an epic historical vampire fantasy and paranormal romance that follows the vampire Anne from 1557 to 1999. The book became quite a challenge as I researched 16th century France, English courting traditions, through the United States Civil War era and beyond.

From the back cover…

Witches set her hopes and dreams ablaze. Can she fight fire with love?

France, 1557. Vampire Anne Scott feels helpless within the divided supernatural community. As a child, she witnessed her family burned by witches disguised as religious zealots. So after losing a lover to a vengeful vampire years later, she turns her thirst for revenge into a vow for peace.

Traveling the globe for centuries, Anne befriends allies and battles immortal enemies in a fight for unification. Only one immortal man has the power to mend her broken heart and end the carnage. But she hasn’t seen him for 200 years…

Can Anne bring the warring worlds together, or will her vision die alongside her?

Kingdom of the Damned is the captivating historical fantasy prequel to the thrilling Kingdom Journals Series. If you like paranormal combat, epic quests, and determined heroines, then you’ll love Tricia Copeland’s enthralling period adventure.

Around Halloween season I put this book on sale and I’m excited to share this book with my US & UK Kindle customers for $0.99 11/4-9/2021!

Buy Kingdom of the Damned to take a powerful stand for never-ending love today!

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HFDYKSG
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HFDYKSG
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

What readers are saying about Kingdom of the Damned epic paranormal romance

5* Amazon – “I quite enjoyed this dark, heart breaking, feels crushing read through time, centuries and not giving in… This book is a gem.”

5* Amazon – “Anne is one of the best written main characters I’ve seen in a while, I truly enjoyed reading about her.”

4* Amazon – “This book is so wonderfully descriptive and vividly detailed, bringing every scene to life before my eyes. The imagery is superb. Ms. Copeland is a fantastic author who delivers a complex and captivating story- I loved how she combined some history with fantasy and made it entirely believable.”

5* Amazon – “This book is incredible. It covers an incredible amount of time and hits on many important events that happened. Twisting them a bit to include both witches and vampires is ingenious. Not to mention how well the author has done it. She weaves a story that draws you in and makes you believe. I still can’t believe how well it was done. And Anne — wow. She is such a perfect lead character. She has flaws, like any good character, but she learns from them. She lives with her heart, and the growth she goes through really makes you feel for her. She has had such tragedies in her life, but she has never given up. This book incredible in so many ways and I recommend this to all lovers of books.”

4* – Amazon – “Tricia Copeland has definitely gained another reader here, if you like paranormal and come on, who doesn’t enjoy a good story with witches and vampires? I definitely recommend giving this a go!”

5* Amazon – “I am totally in love as I so love vampire books. I love to read new authors and get their takes on vampires. I was totally hooked from page one.”

5* Amazon – “I really liked the time period that they story took place in too, I love historical romance stories…”

Don’t miss the chance to get this vivid vampire fantasy for $0.99!

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HFDYKSG
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HFDYKSG
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

And if you haven’t read the rest of the series, this is a great place to start, end or jump into the middle! The whole series is now free to read on Kindle Unlimited so follow Kingdom of the Damned with the rest of the Kingdom Journals.

Happy reading! Tricia

Fae Away by Rose Garcia

For those following my most recent fantasy books, you may know that I’m currently fascinated by all things fae. But I hadn’t read any contemporary fae fantasies until this most recent read, Fae Away, by Rose Garcia. Years back I read The Lord of the Rings, Le Morte de Arthur and knew of Morgan le Fay, watched True Blood with Sookie Stackhouse, read The Adventures of Pinnochio, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and watched the movie Maleficent, so did have a little background on faeries.

I didn’t read any books for research before I published my fae fantasy, To be a Fae Queen, I just started writing. After finishing the book, thought I should know a bit about fae literature and researched traditional fae literature, powers, and lore. (If you want all my fae research you can join my fantasy fiend newsletter with the links at the end of the post.)

What I found is that my fae swayed a bit from the contemporary lore of fae. My fae aren’t harmed by iron, can’t compel others, and they have wings, to name a few differences. But, I digress.

I recently spoke with and interviewed young adult author Rose Garcia for my podcast. After talking to her, I became convinced I had to read her fae fantasies. And wow! I read the first book in four hours, one-clicked the second, and pre-ordered the third which is set to release at the end of December.

A bit more about Rose’s fae. They live on a plane above the earth. This seems super-cool to me because my fae live on a plane below the earth called Middle Earth. I’m calling her fae “Shimmer Fae” because they enter our world through “shimmers”, balls of light that can be stretched out to form portals to travel through. But the Shimmer Fae don’t come to earth anymore because years ago humans tried to take over their world. Now, it is forbidden for a fae to use a shimmer to portal into the human realm.
More about Rose Garcia’s Fae Away from the back cover…

Princess Celyse has two rules she must obey— never touch a portal, and never kiss a human.

Despite being born into the most powerful house in the faerie realm, Celyse dreads her life of duty and obligation. But everything changes when she finds a shimmery portal that offers a glance at the forbidden human realm. If discovered with the portal, it could mean her death. Yet she dares to peek anyway and finds herself face to face with a gorgeous human. Soon, she is visiting her would-be enemy nightly. Until a malicious suitor threatens her life and her kingdom.

Julio can see ghosts— it’s in his blood as the son of a powerful curandera.

With spirits drifting in and out of his life, Julio thinks having visions of an ethereal girl with silver hair is another part of the supernatural weirdness that happens to him. But when the very real girl shows up in the flesh, she brings a dire plea for help. Her faerie realm and his human realm are in danger, and only he can help. His head blares a warning against this deadly path while his heart urges him to do anything to save her. Including risk his own life.

Fae Away debuted as an Amazon #1 New Release!

Fae Away is a breathtaking portal fantasy featuring forbidden love, destined encounters, palace intrigue, and shocking betrayals.

Fae Away is book one in the Fae Bloodlines Series. Continue the story of Celyse and Julio with book two, Fae Fractured!

My official review of Fae Away by Rose Garcia… 5*

This is the fist fae book I’ve read in years and perhaps only the second one ever (besides my own and Lord of the Rings). I went into this book very excited to learn about this fae realm and Celyse and Julio’s story. It did not disappoint. I finished the book in two sittings and was ready to one-click the next book right away.

This is also my first read from Rose Garcia. I loved every bit of this book. It had great pace, action, world-building, and several great surprises. Celyse is the twin princess of the most powerful rulers in the fae realm of Favenly. Her older twin sister will rise to the position of queen. At eighteen they will enter a year of courtship and marry.

But Celyse finds a shimmer, a portal that lets the fae enter the human realm. Always intrigued with the forbidden human world, she immediately opens the shimmer. She sees a boy named Julio and they become friends, talking every night for many months. But as her eighteenth birthday approaches, she knows she must break ties with him. She has a duty to fulfill and what could be between them when her kiss will kill him?

Her meeting with her first potential suitor goes awry. His actions plunge her into a series of events that lead her to many hidden truths. I won’t say more for this book has lots of juicy secrets to discover.

Can Celyse find happiness? Find out in Fae Away!
Find Fae Away on Goodreads

Want to learn more about my fae fantasies? Find the Realm Chronicles books here. And exciting news! To be a Fae Queen is being made into audiobook by The Audio Flow with narrator Jillian Yetter, coming in late 2021!

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Happy Reading! Tricia

YA Fantasy Fae Away

For those following my most recent fantasy books, you may know that I'm currently fascinated by all things fae.

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Kingdom of War - Kingdom Journals Finale

We first meet Hunter in Kingdom of Embers, the first of the Kingdom Journals, young adult urban fantasy series. In Kingdom of Embers, Alena’s mother, Anne, chooses Hunter as her target for a search we, or Alena, don’t know the point of. When she sees him Alena pretends not to recognize him or detect the ping of magic she senses emanating from him. In the days to follow she returns to the library to find Hunter. They realize they’d known each other as imaginary friends as preschoolers and set out on a quest to discover how and why.

Hunter is a regular guys, fairly smart, with lots of friends, and is interested in studying engineering in college. He plays guard on his basketball team. He’s an only child who lives with his mother in a small apartment in Los Angeles. He spends time with his father infrequently as well as his half-brother. His father and brother travel often but it doesn’t bother Hunter because he doesn’t fully trust them. His father seems odd and his brother is cruel and malicious. Hunter is dedicated to his mother and wants to protect her from his father.

As the story progresses, Alena admits to Hunter that she is a witch and believes he is as well. Hunter struggles to believe but is convinced when Alena helps him learn to perform magic. Then, a witch seer, named Chalondra, reads Hunter and he realizes his father is the leader of all the witch lines. Further, his brother is a vampire-witch hybrid. In Kingdom of Embers we learn little about what Chalondra tells Hunter. But the prequel to the series, Kingdom of the Damned, gives the history and legacy of Hunter’s family and their coven. They descend from the archangel Michael and serve as leaders of the witches.

A second part to Alena and Hunter’s findings is a curse and prophecy for breaking the curse. The curse placed on the witch people damns their souls to purgatory for eternity and restricts them from having permanent homes. They must never own a dwelling and move at least over two years. This limits their numbers and powers as witches. The prequels to the series reveals the originator of the curse and reason behind it. All these details will get us off topic today, but believe me, it’s cool! Alena and Hunter learn they are two of a trinity of witches destined to break the curse. But first they must find the third of the trinity and learn how to end the curse.

Researching the curse, they guess that the Lance of Longinus is the key to releasing the curse on witchkind. Even more shocking is the revelation that Hunter’s brother, Theron, knows where the lance is. Unknowingly, Theron boasts to Hunter about being bestowed the age old relic by their father. The finale in Kingdom of Embers finds Alena and Hunter battling Theron and Thanatos for possession of the sword. I won’t give away any other spoilers.

Following Kingdom of Embers, Kingdom of Darkness, and Kingdom of Honor, relay how Alena and Hunter find the third witch of the trinity, Camille, and come to be aided by Jude, Tyler, and D.J. The finale to the series, Kingdom of War, Hunter’s Story, tells of Hunter’s transformation to a full witch, how they form a coven, and seek to break the curse.

Hunter must battle his nature as a leader and the desire to command those around him, to work as a team with Alena, Camille, Jude, Tyler, and D.J. I don’t want to say too much more about the finale to the series so as not to ruin the fun. You can read Kingdom of War in ebook format or listen on audiobook. And bonus, the Kingdom Journals characters are living on in my new series, Realm Chronicles that begins with To be a Fae Queen.

Find the Kingdom Journals here 1/2 off through 10/31/2021: https://www.goodreads.com/series/3076...

Jude from Kingdom of Honor

Jude in Kingdom of Honor YA urban fantasy

We first met Jude in Kingdom of Darkness, the second book of the Kingdom Journals young adult urban fantasy series. Jude, like last week’s witch of the week, Camille, attended the camp to help with mental health issues. He too suffered from episodes of hallucinations, seeing people and hearing voices that aren’t there. In Kingdom of Darkness, he revealed to Camille that he can perform magic. Dr. Antos, their so-called psychologist, helped Jude learn he is a witch. His hallucinations prompted him to discover his witch heritage.

In Kingdom of Darkness, Camille wasn’t sure she could trust Jude or Dr. Antos. Were they working together to lure her into a trap? But when Camille learned her father was missing, she decided to travel to Italy with Dr. Antos and Jude to seek answers. In Italy, at the castle compound used as a headquarters for Michael’s coven, Camille and Jude trained to develop their magic. But we still weren’t sure of Jude’s alliances.

I never intended for Jude to develop into such a pivotal character in this series. But he did and he rose to the occasion, playing a vital role in the trinity’s hunt for the lance that is prophesied to break an age old curse. The trinity of witches, Alena, Camille, and Hunter, were fated to break the curse that damns witch souls to purgatory forever. Jude could become a herald to Camille and aid the trinity in their quest. Or he may be an agent for Michael’s coven who were bent on never seeing the curse broken.

Nonetheless in Kingdom of Honor, Jude poured all his energy into finding a way to rescue Camille from Michael’s coven. He and her father found Alena and Hunter and attempted to free Camille. And an even bigger mystery awaited Jude as he began to learn his heritage and his father’s role. Does he become a true herald and champion for the trinity or does his alliances lie elsewhere?

Find out in Kingdom of Honor, Volume 3, Jude’s Story of the Kingdom Journals. You can listen to Kingdom of Honor on audiobook or read in ebook or paperback.

Now 1/2 off through Halloween 10/31/2021!

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Happy reading and happy listening!
Tricia

Camille from Kingdom of Darkness, Kingdom Journals Volume 2

Camille is the MC in Kingdom of Darkness, Kingdom Journals Vol. 2, Camille’s Story. I had a ton of fun researching for this book set in modern day Iceland and Italy. The story begins in Reykjavik, Iceland where Camille lives with her mother and brother.

Her mother moves them every other year in an effort to improve Camille’s mental health. Camille suffers from bouts of what they believe to be is schizophrenia, seeing visions of people she’s never met, like a silent movie playing in her head. Iceland seems to be the cure for her issues until Camille is thrust back into episodes of seeing a teen girl and boy. But the pair seem awfully familiar, like she knows them. The scenes continue and she sees the pair performing magic, battling witches in a forest. She feels she’s going crazy until she hears, physically hears, them call a name she hasn’t thought of in years, Ivy.

Ivy is the name her preschool age imaginary friends assigned to her. But she hasn’t seen them since the age of four when, convinced she’d gone crazy, her mother put her on psychiatric medication. And after she hears the name the visions begin to include sound, like she is watching people in the same room with her. They wake her during the night and plague her all day.

Convinced she must get to the bottom of these visions without her mother’s interference, Camille goes on a quest to learn all she can about a magical dagger the two witches, Alena and Hunter, of her visions, want. She gets close to unraveling the mystery, but her mother discovers the secrets Camille’s been keeping.

Locked away in a mental hospital, Camille fears she’ll never see Alena and Hunter again. Never learn the truth. Until she finds a camp for troubled youth at a national park in Iceland and convinces her mother to let Camille go. Dr. Antos promises a way to stop the visions without medication, and Camille decides this is the best route.

At the camp Camille meets Jude, a teen, that like her wears bracelets of lode stones meant to stop hallucinations. The camp is like nothing she’s ever experienced, glacier hikes, rappelling, and kayaking in the ocean are activities she never dreamed of doing. Camille and Jude gravitate towards each other, bonding over mutual experiences. Then Jude reveals that he can do magic when his bracelets are off. Shocked, Camille can’t figure out who to trust. Is Jude lying? Is Dr. Antos?

Still, Camille can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to this than meets the eye. Plus, her dad goes missing and she becomes convinced Dr. Antos is behind it. Seeing no other option, she travels with Jude and Dr. Antos to a castle compound inhabited by a cover of witches in Sardinia, Italy. Trapped in the castle, the choice will either be her best way to finding her father and the truth, or the worse mistake she’s ever made.

You can find out what happens to Camille in the YA urban fantasy, Kingdom of Darkness, on audio and in ebook, and paperback.

Until Halloween each of the four books in the complete series are 1/2 off!

Find Kingdom of Darkness on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Happy reading and happy listening!

Tricia

YA Epic Fantasy by Casey L. Bond Cover Reveal

Noor is the new Aten of Helios, having wrenched the kingdom of the sun from her treacherous father’s hands.

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