The Sun Blessed Prince
The Burning, Lyrical Fantasy of Star-Crossed Lovers in a Mythological War
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SEPARATED BY WAR. UNITED BY FATE.
‘An ambitious and compelling tale of deadly court intrigue and star-crossed lovers’
– Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong
Prince Elician is a Giver, so can heal wounds and return the dead to life. He also can’t be killed, so is cursed to watch his country wage an endless war. All this, while keeping his powers a closely guarded secret.
Cat is a Reaper and they can kill with a single touch. He’s been ordered to assassinate Prince Elician – and when he fails, he expects a terrible punishment. Instead, Elician offers Cat sanctuary on enemy territory. Cat hadn’t realized life could be worth living, until the prince. Yet Elician’s enemy plans to turn this kindness against him.
Meanwhile, Elician’s sister, Fen, must somehow master her volatile powers to serve her country as a deadly plot comes to light featuring treachery and forbidden magic. With tensions escalating from court to battlefield, can those who wield power find peace?
A powerful and richly imagined tale from a bold new voice in fantasy fiction, Lindsey Byrd’s The Sun Blessed Prince is a sweeping, enemies-to-lovers and found-family adventure.
'I loved this charming, slow burn queer fantasy romance . . . Byrd expertly weaves in war and intrigue'
– T. L. Huchu
Readers have fallen in love with The Sun Blessed Prince:
‘Really excellent political/epic fantasy with the slowest, *softest* slow burn queer romantic subplot’
‘I absolutely love the magic system’
‘There were plot twists after plot twists, my jaw literally was on the ground for half of it’
‘Made me sob to the point where I had to stop reading for a second’
‘I just loved it’
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In this rip-roaring queer romantic fantasy from Byrd (On the Subject of Griffons), Prince Elician of Soleb is sent to the front lines to fight Alelune's forces for control of the Bask River, which is believed to be blessed by gods. Cat, an Alelune Reaper capable of killing with a single touch, is assigned to assassinate Elician, not knowing that the prince is a Giver, a healer who can resurrect the dead. Not only that, but Cat's powers won't work on him. When the mission inevitably fails and Cat is captured, he expects to be put to death. Instead, Elician transports him as a prisoner to Kreuzfurt, a fortress sanctuary for Reapers and Givers, hoping to extract information from him. This sparks a slow-burning enemies-to-lovers affair—until Elician and his friend Lio are captured by Alelune soldiers and brought to their kingdom. There, Elician is imprisoned with Lio and tortured for years, while everyone back home believes they have died—except for Cat, who, now caught up in Soleb's court, searches for a way to free his lover. The delicious romance and thorny court intrigue keep the pages turning, and a clever late plot twist shocks. This hits all the right notes.
