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Hubris
Can they defy fate when their enemy wrote the rules?
As a linguistics student and book nerd, Eric didn’t think it was his fate to be surrounded by powerful women or to travel a road filled with danger and magic. But when he picks up a dusty vintage book from an antique store, he finds himself surrounded by Light lords, Dark lords, and Sirens—the ancient, winged keepers of a delicate balance between worlds invisible to humans.
Telese, the brazen Siren who appears in Eric’s dorm room, has tried to distance herself from humans while working to keep the balance between the Light World, which wants humans to progress, and the Dark World, which wants humans eradicated. After millennia of unwilling loyalty to her all-powerful father—whose orders are as calculated and heartless as his punishments for defying them—Telese fears his latest order could mean the end of humans and Sirens both.
Telese’s yearning for freedom and Eric’s passion for knowledge bring them together in a dangerous alliance. They must challenge their old beliefs to bring together the warring Light and Dark Worlds, reveal magic to humans, and rally the Sirens against the father-leader who wrote their rules.
Can Eric and Telese save humans and create a united, harmonious system of rule, or will the worlds they must align fall victim to their hubris?
As a linguistics student and book nerd, Eric didn’t think it was his fate to be surrounded by powerful women or to travel a road filled with danger and magic. But when he picks up a dusty vintage book from an antique store, he finds himself surrounded by Light lords, Dark lords, and Sirens—the ancient, winged keepers of a delicate balance between worlds invisible to humans.
Telese, the brazen Siren who appears in Eric’s dorm room, has tried to distance herself from humans while working to keep the balance between the Light World, which wants humans to progress, and the Dark World, which wants humans eradicated. After millennia of unwilling loyalty to her all-powerful father—whose orders are as calculated and heartless as his punishments for defying them—Telese fears his latest order could mean the end of humans and Sirens both.
Telese’s yearning for freedom and Eric’s passion for knowledge bring them together in a dangerous alliance. They must challenge their old beliefs to bring together the warring Light and Dark Worlds, reveal magic to humans, and rally the Sirens against the father-leader who wrote their rules.
Can Eric and Telese save humans and create a united, harmonious system of rule, or will the worlds they must align fall victim to their hubris?
362 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2022
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About the author
Sarah V. Hines
5 books10 followersAbout the Author:
Sarah V. Hines is the author of The Siren Tragedies. She was born in Ohio and currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her half-Bengal, half-demon cat, Balthazar. She majors in International Relations and Anthropology when she has time and money and hopes to work in policy-making someday. Her passions include foreign affairs, comparative religion, fiction writing, digital art and attempting to learn languages (of which she is currently working on Russian and Spanish),
Books have been Sarah's go-to escapism since she began to learn to read at around 2. Her favorite writer is Edgar Allan Poe since she was 7 years old. After reading The Raven and The Black Cat, Sarah decided she would someday write her own books and has been trying to do so ever since. Her favorite memory is just before her 9th birthday when she woke up on Christmas morning to find a beautiful new typewriter underneath the Christmas tree with a note that said: "Dear Sarah, Now you can stop using your mother's typewriter. Love, Santa."
About the Series:
The Siren Tragedies loosely ties in various mythologies with international relations. The series is a story of the price of diplomacy and freedom from a violent system that seems ingrained in the very fabric of existence. Telese, the main protagonist, is a flawed heroine that must confront her violent, megalomanic father, Alexandros, as well as her own darkness that has plagued her since her childhood when she sunk the city of Atlantis and then buried the city of Pompeii. She must rally sisters and nieces that have known nothing but fear of the man that holds their lives by a delicate thread. She must also unite the warring Light World and Dark World who have no interest in working together in order to face the growing threat to humans, sirens and all of existence. The release date for the first book, Hubris, is scheduled for March, 2022.
Sarah V. Hines is the author of The Siren Tragedies. She was born in Ohio and currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her half-Bengal, half-demon cat, Balthazar. She majors in International Relations and Anthropology when she has time and money and hopes to work in policy-making someday. Her passions include foreign affairs, comparative religion, fiction writing, digital art and attempting to learn languages (of which she is currently working on Russian and Spanish),
Books have been Sarah's go-to escapism since she began to learn to read at around 2. Her favorite writer is Edgar Allan Poe since she was 7 years old. After reading The Raven and The Black Cat, Sarah decided she would someday write her own books and has been trying to do so ever since. Her favorite memory is just before her 9th birthday when she woke up on Christmas morning to find a beautiful new typewriter underneath the Christmas tree with a note that said: "Dear Sarah, Now you can stop using your mother's typewriter. Love, Santa."
About the Series:
The Siren Tragedies loosely ties in various mythologies with international relations. The series is a story of the price of diplomacy and freedom from a violent system that seems ingrained in the very fabric of existence. Telese, the main protagonist, is a flawed heroine that must confront her violent, megalomanic father, Alexandros, as well as her own darkness that has plagued her since her childhood when she sunk the city of Atlantis and then buried the city of Pompeii. She must rally sisters and nieces that have known nothing but fear of the man that holds their lives by a delicate thread. She must also unite the warring Light World and Dark World who have no interest in working together in order to face the growing threat to humans, sirens and all of existence. The release date for the first book, Hubris, is scheduled for March, 2022.
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