What a great couple of days. Copies of Fire Dance have arrived, and the cover, inside map and chapter layout look just great. (You can see me leaf through the pages here.)

And to make my week even better… another Fire Dance review was uploaded on Amazon and Goodreads. It has me grinning from ear to ear. I mean, who won’t be bowled over by a review that compares Fire Dance to From Blood and Ash and Fourth Wing, two of the hottest bestsellers of the moment. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSGCFMBS

In case you haven’t heard me say anything about this book (hmm, I know, I know, but I’m thrilled at how it’s turned out) Fire Dance is a fantasy with a difference. It’s a fantasy adventure and a romance and has a smidgeon of science fiction, so technically it’s a science fantasy. You can read the blurb below.

A terrified girl with a deadly ability. A penniless soldier who loves her. A lord with the power of life and death over them.

For seventeen years, Maia, a promising acolyte of the Goddess of Light, has hidden her unholy ability to conjure flames. But when she performs in the temple’s Summer Solstice ceremony, the Emperor’s envoy, Lord Quei, tells her he knows her secret. Quei threatens to enslave Vane, the young man Maia loves, and execute her as a demon unless Maia recovers coins that were stolen from him. He claims these will reveal Maia’s true nature and restore their memories of who he and Maia were in previous lives.

To save herself and Vane, Maia goes against her principles and resorts to deceit and thievery in her search for both the coins and the truth about her fire. But if what Quei says is true, the coins will destroy her beliefs about who she is, the nature of her world, and even worse, Vane’s trust and love.

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