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Chapters (64)
  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  6. Pronunciation Guide
  7. Prologue
  8. Part One
  9. One
  10. Two
  11. Three
  12. Four
  13. Five
  14. Six
  15. Seven
  16. Eight
  17. Nine
  18. Ten
  19. Eleven
  20. Twelve
  21. Thirteen
  22. Part Two
  23. Fourteen
  24. Fifteen
  25. Sixteen
  26. Seventeen
  27. Eighteen
  28. Nineteen
  29. Twenty
  30. Twenty-One
  31. Twenty-Two
  32. Twenty-Three
  33. Part Three
  34. Twenty-Four
  35. Twenty-Five
  36. Twenty-Six
  37. Twenty-Seven
  38. Twenty-Eight
  39. Twenty-Nine
  40. Thirty
  41. Thirty-One
  42. Thirty-Two
  43. Thirty-Three
  44. Thirty-Four
  45. Thirty-Five
  46. Part Four
  47. Thirty-Six
  48. Thirty-Seven
  49. Thirty-Eight
  50. Thirty-Nine
  51. Forty
  52. Forty-One
  53. Forty-Two
  54. Forty-Three
  55. Forty-Four
  56. Forty-Five
  57. Forty-Six
  58. Forty-Seven
  59. Epilogue
  60. Excerpt from The Sun and Its Shade
  61. The Night and Its Moon Playlist
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. About the Author
  64. Back Cover

She didn’t want danger or adventure or trials. She didn’t want dragons or dungeons or assassins. She hated the castles, the guards, and the welts that she knew throbbed on her skin even as she slept on the forest floor from the biting twigs and stinging insects. She rejected all of it. All Nox desired was a pantry filled with root vegetables and a quiet life that left them to rest in each other’s arms. Even in her dreams, she didn’t dare let herself hope for more than this simple exchange. Nox had locked her feelings up so tightly that even her unconscious mind wouldn’t allow her to want or to wish.

Her heart shattered, each crack like the tension of a frozen lake. It broke under some terrible impact as her ice began to fracture, feeling the first of her tears as they fell.

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Can’t wait for more Nox and Amaris?

Read a bonus scene from The Sun and Its Shade here.

Dear Reader,

I was sitting at my kitchen table reading a fantasy novel when I said to my dog Applesauce, “But why don’t the girls kiss?” Applesauce enthusiastically agreed that there wasn’t nearly enough bi rep in fantasy. Nox, Amaris, Gadriel, and their band of misfits introduced themselves to me that night, and The Night and Its Moon was born. I drank too many bottles of wine while I poured myself into a four-book labor of love. What ensued was a manic episode of bisexual representation, femme protagonists who use brains and beauty as currency in a combat-heavy genre, discovering one’s identity in a world without homophobia, mental health awareness, religious trauma, morally gray handsome men, love, fae, sex, and dragons. My plan was to push the “self-publish” button and maybe make enough money to buy back the Chardonnay hole I’d dug for myself. Instead, TNAIM became the queer little engine that could.

I hope you enjoyed part one of their story and will stay in Gyrradin with me to find out: What will happen with Amaris and the grumpy general? Will Nox kill our sunshine cinnamon roll reevers? Who kisses whom next? What happens to the flying danger lizard?

If you loved TNAIM as much as I do, I hope you’ll leave a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or your favorite retailer and share on your social media so I can gesture to the number of stars on the screen and convince my incredible, wise, beautiful publishers at Bloom that I’m a swell writer with nifty ideas so they’ll want to keep me on as an author. (Bloom, if you’re reading this, the villain prequels are finished, very spicy, and everyone’s a villain… I also have a folklore-heavy modern fantasy up my sleeve, the first of which is already complete. Please love me.)