FOR EVER AFTER

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For fans of Stephanie Garber’s ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART and Walt Disney’s TANGLED.

Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Kayri has spent years avoiding magic and doing exactly as she’s told. But when her ailing mother’s condition grows worse, Alyssa dares to cross into the magically lawless North Emberia, believing the Magic Mirror—an object bestowed by Divine Hope and said to grant a single wish—may be hidden among the infamous sorcerer Eros Daemir’s collection of rare antiquities. Though the Mirror is nowhere to be found, another Divine gift calls to her, earning the attention of the museum’s disarmingly handsome curator.

Horrified when that same curator appears in the throne room—revealing he is, in truth, Eros himself—Alyssa learns that her blood holds the key to locating the Mirror and joins him on a quest north to claim it. As their reluctant partnership deepens into an uneasy yet undeniable connection, Alyssa confronts powerful magic and Divine beings who address her with unsettling familiarity—before a far more chilling truth is revealed: her life is bound to Eros by a deadly curse. If one dies, so does the other—and in nine sunsets, Death will claim them both.

With time running out and warned her companion may not be all he seems, Alyssa must secure the Divine gifts that could save her mother—and herself. But as prophecies twist, memories resurface, and the truth of her connection to the Divine emerges, Alyssa realises the curse has stolen far more than she could ever imagine and breaking it may cost her the very sense of self she has only just begun to reclaim.

Standalone Young Adult Fantasy written in 1st Person, Single POV.

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  • I stayed up WAY too late last night because I could not put this down!!! I can't wait to finish it, I cannot stop thinking about this book.

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  • I felt everything, I cried, I gasped, I shouted as I read. I couldn’t put it down.

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  • Your dialogue is fantastic. No notes. It’s authentic, I love the banter, the flirting, the personality we’re getting in it. It feels real, some of the best I’ve seen!

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  • My only regret is that I can’t buy a copy yet and lend it out to all my friends and family to read because I know they’d love it to!

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  • I absolutely was RIVETED. I could not put this book down. I loved every single element . . . The story just absolutely held my attention from the first sentence until the very last.

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  • I'm eating this up. I feel like I'm reading a book that's already published.

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  • I know I keep saying it, but I'm loving this book. I think it's fantastic. Your characters, your setting, your worldbuilding. They're just CHEF'S KISS!

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  • I love Eros as a character. Like I said in my overall feedback he reminds me of Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle in the best way! I felt like he had real depth to him, he’s not just a love interest in the story, he’s his own person.

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  • I related to Alyssa immensely as I read. I think the way that she feels she has no value, that she feels like she doesn’t have worth and is all alone is so relatable. I’ve felt that way my whole life, and I loved seeing that represented in a book, in a character. I loved that we could see her light, even when she doesn’t see it in herself.

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  • The characters are quirky but believable, the banter is humorous but also understandable and respectable in their positions, and the plot is only growing deeper with each chapter.

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  • I was floored by this manuscript, and I have still been thinking about it days after. That never happens for me. This was special.

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  • We’re given the greatest details of fantasy (masquerades, royalty, magic, politics) alongside a cast readers will adore.

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  • That was before. When I was home and safe and in comfortable footwear. Not surrounded by a swirling, faceless crowd. Not surrounded by magic. Of course, I was bolder then. Braver. Compared to the relative safety of the solid, mundane halls of the palace—who wouldn’t be?

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  • ‘The people in these parts, the ones inside,’ my voice betrays me, catching in my throat, ‘are they utterly ordinary too?’ The smile he flashes sends a startling thrum through my pulse. ‘Perhaps now we should define ordinary.’

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  • ‘And where are we up to in these fine proceedings?’ His gaze glides over the two of us, then returns to Eros with a wicked grin. ‘Ah yes. My favourite part.’

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  • Love leaves. It always leaves. Through choice or death, one way or another it disappears.

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  • ‘Don’t be ridiculous.’ Draven leans against the merchant’s stand and crosses his arms. ‘I live in the After. Should the boy die, I would have to look at his stupid face from my living room window.’ 

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  • The past is gone, and fate is determined in its path. Grow from it. Do not let it rule you. You have your own story, your own ending, to concern yourself with.

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