It’s Time!
For Another Cover Reveal!!
I know, I know, we just had one of these two weeks ago. But who’s really going to complain about another peek at a new cover?? I know I wouldn’t!
And I’m so excited to share more about the second book in my romantasy series. Aflame is set 150 years after Awakened, but don’t worry—Arden and Seidon are still alive and well and recognized the world over as the best-ever “power couple.” 😉
And something EXTRA fun for you…if you pre-order from my site, you’ll get an insta-download of the first chapter of Aflame! You also have the option of ebook, regular paperback, or printed-edge paperback. (Be sure you’re logged in when you order…that’s the only way the site knows who you are, to provide that download.)
Let’s meet…
Valkyrja (Kyrja)
Kyrja (pronounced keer-yuh or keer-ee-uh) is the youngest daughter of King Isidor of Fjordlandi. The extra daughter. Not the heir, not the spare. She is, as her older sister likes to say, “pretty but useless,” with a magic so much weaker than the rest of her family that it’s laughable. She can never best her siblings in their regular sparring … because why? She’d rather use her power over snow and ice to make the people smile with her crystal artwork and volunteer at the free clinic and numb children’s arms before their inoculations. But when tragedy strikes and Kyrja finds herself thrust into more responsibility than she ever wanted, she has to step up…and in doing so, learns how deep the corruption in Fjordlandi runs. But what can she, pretty and useless, do about it?
A rebel only when it comes to learning the holy Words…
Nikanor (Nik)
In Fjordlandi, the magical Blessed rule, the Fjorders are the aristocratic class with all the power, and the common people, the farmers—called thanes—are, well, nothing. Nothing but breeding stock. Nik has always wanted more than he’s been allotted as a thane, not in terms of land or things, but education. With the help of a local clergyman, he’s educated himself in hiding, studying the law and the holy Words of the Giver. But when his father, leader of a rebel group, summons him to the capital city, Nik has no idea that his life is on a collision course with Princess Valkyrja’s—nor that there are secrets kept within the country’s largest volcano that will threaten to burn all of Fjordlandi to the ground.
From within the volcano…
Daemon
For years uncountable, Daemon has lived in Fjordlandi’s biggest, ever-active volcano, sentenced here for rebellion. But when he was tossed into Helviti’s throat, he didn’t burn up. He…turned. Turned into something the world had never seen before, into a creature of fire and lava, able to summon those magma flows with his will. Daemon, the old king had hissed at him–the dark answer to the Blessed, dubbed the Cursed. So Daemon the Cursed he will be. And though he has quietly kept the volcano in his fist these many years, helped along with the others like him that have been tossed into the lava lake from time to time, something has changed. Something new is happening Above. And Daemon isn’t going to let it pass him by.
An evocative setting
Fjordlandi
In a post-cataclysmic Earth many thousands of years in the future, technology and gift from God have combined to create power over the elements that is called “magic.” In what used to be Scandinavia, this magic is specifically geared toward snow and ice, and Fjordlandi is known as the land of the ice wielders. With cities open to the elements, the aristocratic Fjorders have become immune to the cold, and emotion is considered a weakness that will melt one’s protective ice…but in the sheltered greenhouse domes where the thanes live, blood still runs hot–and so does a festering revolution. For centuries, the thanes have been crushed under the ice-cold boot of the magically Blessed. But the time has come for them to set their whole land Aflame.
Roseanna’s next
Fantasy Romance
In a world of fire and ice, an underestimated princess, a faith-filled commoner, and an unknown power burning with resentment must join forces to bring long-awaited justice to Fjordlandi—a kingdom too long held captive to the ice, ready to be set Aflame.
Ready? Here it is!
The cover of Aflame!
What do you think??
I LOVE how this turned out! The beautiful drawing of Kyrja comes to us courtesy of the amazing Caroline Smith of Caroline Calligraphie (one of my P&P ladies). I added a background with the fire/lava elements (because, um, only having snow on the cover of a book called Aflame might be confusing, LOL), combined it with some rising sparks, I did a dual Awakening mark this time so we can see both the marks of the Blessed and the Cursed (uneven simply so there’s no weird line, they shift behind her), and then of course had the title in a fun gild to coordinate with Awakened.
AND…this one will also have printed edges!! (You have the option to pre-order with or without them, since I have a few readers who prefer to put their own art on the edges.) Here’s a peek at what those will look like!
The Official Description
In a land of fire and ice, love is considered a weakness.
Princess Valkyrja has always been deemed “pretty and useless” by her family, who rule the kingdom of Fjordlandi. Though she has the same magical Blessing over ice and snow as her brother, sister, and father, she can never seem to use it for the brute-force ruling they require, choosing instead to make art that makes her people smile. But when a horrific attack shakes their whole world, she has to step up…and find a strength she didn’t know she had.
Nikanor has lived his life under the greenhouse domes, a commoner with no opportunities to do things he most desires—to study the Words or the law, to be something other than a farmer. When he and his best friend follow his father to the capital, he hopes only for a nice holiday. Instead, the attack throws him into the path of a princess, and his world is never the same.
But the Blessed aren’t the only ones with magic in Fjordlandi. There are others already Awakened in the volcano, those called the Cursed, with lava in their veins and rebellion in their hearts. And once the fires of revolution ignite, they won’t stop until all of Fjordlandi is Aflame.
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.