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Angela Boord

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Angela Boord is a hopeless romantic, a nerdy introvert, and the author of SPFBO5 Finalist FORTUNE’S FOOL. She can usually be found with her nose in a book when she’s not writing her own dark fantasy epics of hope, redemption, and relationships in all their messy glory. Angela and her husband live in northern Mississippi in a house full of children, books, and innumerable quantities of Legos.

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	Fortune's Fool (Eterean Empire, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2019 — 10 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 Alchemy of Sorrow by Sarah Chorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Virginia McClain (Goodreads Author) (Editor), M.L. Wang (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2022 — 5 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
	Smuggler's Fortune (Eterean Empire, #0.5) 4.31 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2020 — 5 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
	Dragonmeat 4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 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
	Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 by Paula Guran (Editor / Contributor), Esther M. Friesner (Contributor), Claudia O'Keefe (Contributor) 3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 2 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
	Fool's Promise (Eterean Empire, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — 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
	Dark Ends: A Dark Fantasy Anthology by Luke Tarzian (Goodreads Author), Angela Boord (Goodreads Author), Krystle Matar (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2020 — 2 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
	Through Dreams So Dark (Rai Ascendant, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 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
	Fortune's Fool Lib/E by Angela Boord (Goodreads Author), Gabrielle Baker (Reader) 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
	Fool's Promise: Eterean Empire by Angela Boord (Goodreads Author), Liam Price (Narrator), Gabrielle Baker (Narrator) 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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Fool's Promise Audio out now!

The audio for Fool's Promise is out today, everywhere you like to listen to audio books!

FOOL'S PROMISE picks up with Kyrra and Arsenault right after the action at the close of SPFBO Finalist FORTUNE'S FOOL--as the series opens up to deal with all the political and personal consequences that the characters have set in motion.

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Series by Angela Boord

Eterean Empire (2 books)
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Rai Ascendant (1 book)
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Early Irish Myths and Sagas

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

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“Loving a woman and taking care of children didn’t make him weak.”
― Angela Boord, The Alchemy of Sorrow

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“Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You have to accept, finally, that you can’t make it better or different, no matter how awful the thing is. The best you can do is pick yourself up and keep going. Try to be better in the future. To be more than you think you can be, after you’ve taken that kind of blow.”
― Angela Boord, The Alchemy of Sorrow

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“…he realized now they weren’t meant for each other, and he hadn’t known what it was to be a man when they met. He’d thought it had to do with strength you could show off and brandish at other men like a weapon. But that kind of strength was sorry and weak when it came down to it, like a cheap disguise he used to cover all his fears. It was so much harder to take responsibility for the care of those most dear to him. That responsibility was terrifying and utterly necessary, and he understood now how much actual strength it took to do it. He didn’t know if he would ever have enough.”
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