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Taylor Vander Leest is the 20-year-old author of the These Bonded Souls series. She was raised in small town Iowa, and currently resides an hour away studying english & creative writing and marketing at the University of Iowa. She is semi-fluent in ASL, Spanish, and knows a few phrases in High Valyrian. Before adopting her dog Benji she could be found daydreaming to a fault or playing basketball, but now she's usually just trying to stop him from eating her books. A Crash of Sea and Storm and A Dagger of Betrayal and Lies are her first novels, with their sister The Lady Dáinn soaring onto shelves sometime soon... ...more

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	A Crash of Sea and Storm (These Bonded Souls, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dagger of Betrayal and Lies (These Bonded Souls, #2) 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady Dáinn (These Bonded Souls, #0.5) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untitled (These Bonded Souls, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)

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Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon)

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