Heaven’s Burden, the second book in The Missing Heir trilogy, is now released! 

I’m sure you’ve realized the immensely common trope within fantasy for stories starring young heroines like Arabella, which I’m going to call the ‘parents aren’t around trope’. For a whole myriad of reasons, the main character’s parents can’t be around to help with anything going on. Their parents are dead or missing, they’re terrible parents to begin with who don’t care, etc.

With the enchanted races trilogies, I really wanted a variety of situations with my main characters, so it was quite fun to write Arabella as a heroine who not only has two great parents who are still alive, but who refuses to run off on this fantasy journey she’s been called to without her parents. She’s only eighteen and wants them by her side helping her, darn it!

It allowed me to have family be a heavy theme in this trilogy in a way that I really enjoyed. And I suppose it was a theme in The Hidden Hotel as well . . . and might end up being a theme in ALL the trilogies 😅 What can I say besides I love the theme of family? I hope readers enjoy that aspect of the stories! 

Before we get on to the summary of the latest book, I wanted to let readers know that because Heaven’s Captive reached (and surpassed!) 25 ratings, the first bonus story for that book has been posted on my website! I’ll post the second as soon as the book reaches 50 ratings. (And I also, of course, have bonus stories planned for books two and three when they reach the 25 and 50 rating milestones!) This first bonus story covers Zoey’s perspective when she was helping Wiley and Luca go dress shopping for Arabella.

As for the summary for Heaven’s Burden:  

Arabella didn’t expect her new life as the Heavens Clan’s leader to be easy—and that was before realizing not all of the clan is willing to accept her mixed blood. She quickly discovers that before she can learn how to wield the power of a matriarch, she’ll have to earn the clan’s loyalty if she wants any hope of successfully leading Heavens against the Abyss. Except when she turns to Luca, the handsome seer who promised to stand by her side, for help, he’s suddenly never around. Has he abandoned her after witnessing the clan’s opposition to her?

Luca, after his failure to protect Arabella from Andromeda and Inferno, is determined not to fail her again. Which means staying away from her to ensure she doesn’t stop his visions with her touch. He can’t afford to gain control of his visions if it means going without them, not when it puts the woman he loves in danger. So he’ll stay away from her and relay his visions through his cousins. No matter how much it hurts him to avoid her.

In the midst of these challenges, the Abyss seems intent on taking Arabella’s life before she gains control of her powers—except mindless entities aren’t supposed to have intents of their own. Before Luca can delve into his visions to determine the cause of this, his visions suddenly vanish. The clan, certain Arabella isn’t up to the task of leading them, blames her for Luca’s apparent lack of visions.

With the clan thrown into panic, can a rejected, human-raised leader and a visionless seer bring them together to fight the Abyss?

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