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La Reine des Brisants
Elliot Howell est une étoile montante dans le milieu artistique de Seafall. Il mène une carrière prometteuse en tant que portraitiste, a de bons amis et une mécène fabuleusement riche.
La reine Nyx règne sur la cour de Gentry au Valwode, le pays magique situé entre le monde des mortels et Bana, le royaume des os où vivent les gobelins. Elle est puissante, belle et d’une sagesse inimaginable, mais elle n’a pas d’héritier pour porter la couronne de bois lorsqu’elle ne sera plus là.
Elliot et Nyx se rencontrent à Breaker House, un bâtiment ancré dans les trois mondes. Pour Elliot, c’est le coup de foudre. Pour Nyx aussi, mais cela signifierait renoncer à sa couronne, à son pays et à sa vie éternelle.
Mais certaines choses valent n’importe quel prix.
La reine Nyx règne sur la cour de Gentry au Valwode, le pays magique situé entre le monde des mortels et Bana, le royaume des os où vivent les gobelins. Elle est puissante, belle et d’une sagesse inimaginable, mais elle n’a pas d’héritier pour porter la couronne de bois lorsqu’elle ne sera plus là.
Elliot et Nyx se rencontrent à Breaker House, un bâtiment ancré dans les trois mondes. Pour Elliot, c’est le coup de foudre. Pour Nyx aussi, mais cela signifierait renoncer à sa couronne, à son pays et à sa vie éternelle.
Mais certaines choses valent n’importe quel prix.
180 pages, Paperback
Published September 4, 2026
About the author
C.S.E. Cooney
199 books365 followersC. S. E. Cooney (she/her) is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author: first, for Bone Swans: Stories, and most recently for Saint Death’s Daughter (on Kirkus Review’s list of Year’s Science Fiction and Best Fantasy 2022). Other work includes Saint Death’s Herald, second in the Saint Death series; The Twice-Drowned Saint; Dark Breakers; Desdemona and the Deep; and poetry collection How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, which includes her Rhysling Award-winning poem “The Sea King’s Second Bride.”
As a voice actor and proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Cooney has narrated over 130 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts such as Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Podcastle. As singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, she crowdfunded for two EPs: Alecto! Alecto! and The Headless Bride, and produced one album, Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir.
Her plays have been performed in several countries: most recently, March 2023, a collaborative sci-fi musical Ballads from a Distant Star at New York City’s Arts on Site. Her short fiction and poetry can be found in many speculative fiction magazines and anthologies, most recently: “A Minnow or Perhaps a Colossal Squid,” in Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Fantasy Volume 1, “Snowed In,” in Bridge To Elsewhere, and “Megaton Comics Proudly Presents: Cap and Mia, Episode One: “Captain Comeback Saves the Day!” in The Sunday Morning Transport—all in collaboration with her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez.
Cooney and Hernandez (collectively: the Hernandooneys) co-designed a table-top roleplaying game co-designed by called Negocios Infernales. It crowdfunded on Kickstarter in under 12 hours, and is out now in 2025 with Outland Entertainment. Order your copy here!
Find C. S. E. Cooney here at csecooney.com, on Substack at https://csecooney.substack.com/, on LinkTree, at @csecooney on IG, on Facebook at facebook.com/cscooney, on her Amazon Author Page, or at Goodreads.
MEDIUM BIO
C. S. E. Cooney (she/her) is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author: for novel Saint Death’s Daughter, and collection Bone Swans, Stories. Other work includes Saint Death’s Herald (second in the Saint Death Series), The Twice-Drowned Saint, Dark Breakers, and Desdemona and the Deep. As a voice actor and proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Cooney has narrated over 130 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts like Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tales to Terrify, and Podcastle. In March 2023, she produced her collaborative sci-fi musical, Ballads from a Distant Star, at New York City’s Arts on Site. (Find her music at Bandcamp under Brimstone Rhine.) With her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez, she co-designed a GM-less TTRPG called, Negocios Infernales (“the Spanish Inquisition… INTERRUPTED by aliens!”), out now from Outland Entertainment, with the companion collection Infernal Bargains, poetry and prose inspired by the game’s “Deck of Destiny.” Find her website and Substack newlsetter via her Linktree or try “csecooney” on various social media platforms.
SHORT BIO
C. S. E. Cooney is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author, a Rhysling Award-winning poet, a game designer, a SAG-AFTRA voice actor, and the singer-songwriter Brimstone Rhine. Find her on social media via her LinkTree https://linktr.ee/csecooney
As a voice actor and proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Cooney has narrated over 130 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts such as Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Podcastle. As singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, she crowdfunded for two EPs: Alecto! Alecto! and The Headless Bride, and produced one album, Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir.
Her plays have been performed in several countries: most recently, March 2023, a collaborative sci-fi musical Ballads from a Distant Star at New York City’s Arts on Site. Her short fiction and poetry can be found in many speculative fiction magazines and anthologies, most recently: “A Minnow or Perhaps a Colossal Squid,” in Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Fantasy Volume 1, “Snowed In,” in Bridge To Elsewhere, and “Megaton Comics Proudly Presents: Cap and Mia, Episode One: “Captain Comeback Saves the Day!” in The Sunday Morning Transport—all in collaboration with her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez.
Cooney and Hernandez (collectively: the Hernandooneys) co-designed a table-top roleplaying game co-designed by called Negocios Infernales. It crowdfunded on Kickstarter in under 12 hours, and is out now in 2025 with Outland Entertainment. Order your copy here!
Find C. S. E. Cooney here at csecooney.com, on Substack at https://csecooney.substack.com/, on LinkTree, at @csecooney on IG, on Facebook at facebook.com/cscooney, on her Amazon Author Page, or at Goodreads.
MEDIUM BIO
C. S. E. Cooney (she/her) is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author: for novel Saint Death’s Daughter, and collection Bone Swans, Stories. Other work includes Saint Death’s Herald (second in the Saint Death Series), The Twice-Drowned Saint, Dark Breakers, and Desdemona and the Deep. As a voice actor and proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Cooney has narrated over 130 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts like Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tales to Terrify, and Podcastle. In March 2023, she produced her collaborative sci-fi musical, Ballads from a Distant Star, at New York City’s Arts on Site. (Find her music at Bandcamp under Brimstone Rhine.) With her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez, she co-designed a GM-less TTRPG called, Negocios Infernales (“the Spanish Inquisition… INTERRUPTED by aliens!”), out now from Outland Entertainment, with the companion collection Infernal Bargains, poetry and prose inspired by the game’s “Deck of Destiny.” Find her website and Substack newlsetter via her Linktree or try “csecooney” on various social media platforms.
SHORT BIO
C. S. E. Cooney is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author, a Rhysling Award-winning poet, a game designer, a SAG-AFTRA voice actor, and the singer-songwriter Brimstone Rhine. Find her on social media via her LinkTree https://linktr.ee/csecooney
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