Autorentext

Samantha Bansil is a Filipino-American fantasy author. She studied sociology and French at Boston University before earning a master's degree at Institut d'études politiques de Paris. After trying on many a professional hat, she found her way back to her one true love: writing. Her stories often feature big feelings, lush settings, and unlikeable protagonists. A jet-setter at heart, she lives to travel worlds both real and imagined. When she's not writing, she can be found wandering bookstores and ricocheting between continents. She works in Paris, France, as a content marketer.

Klappentext

"Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger--a petty and passionate princess who wields the enormous power of the skies with fickle indifference. Circling the throne is Imeria Kulaw--the matriarch of a traitorous rival family who wields recklessly enhanced powers of her own--with designs to secure a high-ranking position for her son and claim the crown for her family. Each woman has a secret weakness--a lover, a heartbreak, a lie. But each is willing to pay the steepest price to bring down her rivals once and for all"--