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 week's.
Edmund tipped his head back against the wall behind him. “Arden has to be all right. He was probably called away because of whatever happened. But what happened?”
Peregrine didn’t mention his preoccupation with Arden, thankfully. “I don’t know. Something big, and for some reason, they’re blaming us.”
“But why? We have an agreement. An alliance.”
Edmund cursed. “Father is going to be too busy fighting Aither to worry about Tycen’s threats.”
“They’ll take advantage of it.”
“I have no doubt.” But the thought was terrifying all the
same.
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