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 sharing 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 cis demisexual main characters, 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 last week's.
A soft noise filtered into Edmund’s consciousness, past the overwhelming feel and taste and scent of Arden. Arden stiffened slightly and broke the kiss, pulling back and releasing his hold on Edmund. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have—”
“Well, not here anyway.” Edmund gave him a crooked smile.
Arden’s lips curved into a half smile. “You’re freezing. Are you all right?”
“Cold, but all right otherwise. Peregrine too, but Seren was…hurt.”
Arden looked to Seren, but Ciaran was already there.
“Are you all right to walk?”
Seren nodded. “Of course, my lord.”
“Then we should go,” Arden said.
“Tell me this was an unfortunate misunderstanding and you’re here to let us out. And explain what this all is, for that matter,” Edmund said.
Arden looked up at Edmund. “I can do two of those things.”
You find out more about A Dance of Water and Air, including where to buy it, here. Thanks for reading today!
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