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The Burden Of Hope Ebook

Prequel Novelette To Bonds Of Allegiance

  • When she was the villain
  • A rebellion trying to survive
  • See how the series began
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Description

Get started with the prequel novelette to Bonds Of Allegiance.

  • About a decade before Book One
  • She's the villain of this part of the story
  • Start here

Why It's Different

It sits in the grey

  • The Chaos Born series is epic fantasy in scale, but darker in tone, so it sits between those two sub-genres.

The FMC was the villain

  • She wasn't a hero with a dark past. The FMC in this series was the actual villain in the prequel, and leading up to this.
  • She's only just now starting to see things differently

The magic is given and it has a cost

  • We're talking runes carved into the skin once. Thy're like a battery, used until they're empty, and then refilled, painfully.
  • It's power, but also a leash.

The Details

Bonds of Allegiance Ebook:

  • ISBN: 978-1-0678913-7-4


The Burden of Hope Ebook:

  • ISBN: 978-1-0678913-4-3

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The Book

The Hellhound of Ixiall earned her title one body at a time.

Nayir was a child when Agrovox threw her into the Crucible with clear orders that the Master of Arms would not intervene. At sixteen he carved the Sigil into her spine and made her his enforcer. She has spent thirteen years as the sharpest weapon in a tyrant's arsenal — she wants to end that.

The Sigil is failing. Where the other Praetorians feel compulsion, Nayir feels pain, and pain can be endured. As the rebellion closes in and her father's grip slips, a childhood scar begins to burn with something older than his magic.

They have been hiding what he took. The more she pulls at the threads of truth, the more she risks the only two things she has left to lose. 

She was forged to be a weapon. But Whose?

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What You're Walking Into

A Morally Grey FMC

  • Villain in somebody else's story
  • Something's shifting in her

The Magic

  • The magic is in runes and sigils cut into the skin
  • They're carved once, but will eventually run dry
  • Refilling them is what hurts

The World

  • Dark epic scale
  • Empires, history & and a world that was ahere long before any of this

What you've actually been looking for

Not light. Not hopeless. Grey.

You know how high fantasy ends by the end of chapter six. Grimdark tells you nothing really matters and spends five hundred pages proving it. There's nothing wrong with either of those scenarios, they have their day. This series is in between those two genres.

  • The scale and worldbuilding of
    epic fantasy
  • The weight of dark fantasy
  • Magic with a cost
  • A morally grey FMC you'll want
    to talk about
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High Fantasy or Grimdark

High Fantasy or Grimdark

The Lead

Morally Grey Destined and good or doomed from the first page

The World

Dangerous Too hopeful or too rotten

The Magic

Costly Wondrous or corrupting

Love

Saves nobody Saves the day or never survives

The Ending

Earned A tidy victory or complete ash

You Finish

Wanting more Unfulfilled or face down on the floor hollowed out and depressed

The World

Tap the dots. Explore what's in store.

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This Book's for you if:

You want the scale of epic fantasy...

But want it a bit darker

You want an FMC that's stuck in the middle and is torn about it

You like magic that has a cost to it

You want the scale of epic fantasy...

But want it a bit darker

You want an FMC that's stuck in the middle and is torn about it

You like magic that has a cost to it

You want the scale of epic fantasy...

But want it a bit darker

You want an FMC that's stuck in the middle and is torn about it

You like magic that has a cost to it

You want the scale of epic fantasy...

But want it a bit darker

You want an FMC that's stuck in the middle and is torn about it

You like magic that has a cost to it

You want the scale of epic fantasy...

But want it a bit darker

You want an FMC that's stuck in the middle and is torn about it

You like magic that has a cost to it

You want the scale of epic fantasy...

But want it a bit darker

You want an FMC that's stuck in the middle and is torn about it

You like magic that has a cost to it

Probably not for you If:

You want the perfect hero

You want true love and a romance that carries the plot

You want open door spicy scenes

You want everything to play out PG-13

You want the perfect hero

You want true love and a romance that carries the plot

You want open door spicy scenes

You want everything to play out PG-13

You want the perfect hero

You want true love and a romance that carries the plot

You want open door spicy scenes

You want everything to play out PG-13

You want the perfect hero

You want true love and a romance that carries the plot

You want open door spicy scenes

You want everything to play out PG-13

You want the perfect hero

You want true love and a romance that carries the plot

You want open door spicy scenes

You want everything to play out PG-13

You want the perfect hero

You want true love and a romance that carries the plot

You want open door spicy scenes

You want everything to play out PG-13

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You're Not The Only One

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Readers are reaching for darker fantasy

The numbers are in:

Increase in UK fantasy and sci-fi sales between 2023-2024

Year-over-year sales growth (2023-2024), making it one of the fastest-growing subcategories across the entire literary market.

Growth in dark fantasy book sales in Canada in 2025

However You Like To read

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From Tina

Why I wrote it this way

I think a great story matters, but not nearly as much as the characters you go through it with. Adding layers and complications to characters also adds those things to the story by default, and that's what actually makes things interesting.

Where This Is Going

Book One

Out Now

Book Two

Already Drafted / ETA 2027

Book Three

Already Plotted

The Ending

Already written down

"I've been on the other end of an unfinished series. I get the hesitation because I've experienced it. I know how important it is to finish what you start. I'm looking at you, George."

Questions Before You Buy

Do I need to read anything else first?

Burden of Hope is my Novelette and lays the groundwork for Book One. It's not required but does add to things, so I do highly recommend it.

How long is it?

It's around 122,00 words, which is xxx chapters, and xxx pages

Will the series get finished?

Absolutely! Book One is now out. Book two is already mostly drafted with an ETA of 2027. Book three is already plotted. Most importantly, the ending is written down and stored somewhere safe.

Will the ebook work on my Kindle?

Yes. As well as pretty much every other ereader.

How long before I get my ebook

It's instant delivery. Purchase then check your email. It'll be waiting for you.

If I like Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn will I like this?

There's a good chance you will. They both have themes of oppression and rebellion, as well as unique magic systems.

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