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Laurisa Brandt

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Laurisa Brandt grew up along the Alabama Gulf Coast, where she spent her summers dreaming of high fantasy adventures and writing them down in spiral notebooks. She once narrowly missed being struck by lightning and later came face to face with the ghost in Uncle John’s house.
While working for a therapeutic horseback riding program for people with special needs, she was hired by a Hollywood stunt actor to write a TV pilot episode. She finds inspiration through her many interests, which include: mixed martial arts, freestyle motocross, horseback archery, and antediluvian archaeology.
She lives in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and their adopted Timneh African Grey parrot, Hercules. You can visit her online at laurisabrandt.com.

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Average rating: 4.22 · 172 ratings · 52 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Birthright of Scars: Rising 4.19 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2023 — 4 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
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Birthright of Scars Duology (2 books)
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Daughter of the Sun: A Mothmar Novel (The Mothmar Trilogy Book 1)

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“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself.”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

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“A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

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“I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I feel strength growing in myself. A strength I haven’t felt in so long. It’s not only that I’m loved. It’s that they believe in me.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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“I’ve never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I feel strength growing in myself. A strength I haven’t felt in so long. It’s not only that I’m loved. It’s that they believe in me. Not the mask like my soldiers at the Institute. Not the false idol I built in the service of Augustus, but the man beneath. Lykos may be gone. Eo may be silent. Mustang a world away. And the Sons on the brink of extinction. But I feel my soul trickling back into me as I realize I am finally home. —”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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