The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
I'm switching over to snippets from A Dance of Water and Air, the first book in my Elemental Magicae series. In Dance, Edmund is a prince who must make an alliance marriage with the queen of a neighboring country, but when he arrives there, he finds the queen distant and something very wrong. He begins to grow closer to the queen's brother, Prince Arden...and begins to fall for him. Then Edmund is accused of trying to murder the queen, and he and Arden flee, to save Edmund's life and give them time to figure out what's threatening both of their countries. Dance has trans, bisexual, and demisexual rep, and though Edmund and Arden are left in a good place, the story continues in A Harmony of Fire and Earth. I'm jumping into these snippets after Edmund has been accused and thrown in a cell in the dungeon with his secretary and personal guard. This snippet follows directly after last week's.
Peregrine sat again after checking on Seren and pressed up against Edmund’s side. They’d been huddling together since not long after they’d been brought down and dumped unceremoniously in the cold cell. He could just make out the outline of Peregrine’s face in the dim light filtering in through the small barred window in the door.
“I can’t believe they did this.” It wasn’t the first time Edmund had thought it, but it was the first he’d said it aloud, and as soon as he did, he knew it was useless. Disbelief wouldn’t help when they were quite obviously in a dungeon meant for criminals. He wondered what their chances of getting out were.
“It’s going to provoke a war.”
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