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.
Edmund slumped against the wall in the small cell he shared with Peregrine and Seren. The stone floor was cold beneath him, the damp seeping through clothing not meant for the chill. But what clothing was appropriate for being thrown into a dungeon? He wasn’t sure such a thing existed, but he’d have been happy for a coat.
He and Peregrine had made the decision that Seren should be wrapped in the couple of thin blankets they’d been left with. Seren had been roughed up and knocked out by the guards who’d come for them and was still groggy. She wouldn’t have accepted the blankets if she hadn’t been unconscious when Edmund and Peregrine had tried to make her as comfortable and warm as possible on the floor.
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