By Angela Boord

Through Dreams So Dark

Rai Ascendant, Book 1

Coming 10.27.22! Angela Boord’s new portal fantasy series!

Sergei’s mother sacrificed herself to get her family through the Iron Curtain. Now it’s Sergei’s turn to save her…even if he has to cross realities to do it.

Sergei is determined to put his broken family back together, no matter the danger.

Not-rats and bugs hiding in his walls, listening to his conversations? He can live with that. The shadowy government organization trying to dig encoded information out of his nightmares? He’ll play along to learn what they know about his mother.

If he has to destroy his college career, his love life, and the best friendship he’s ever had—with his roommate Cam—he’ll do that, too, if that’s what it takes. He’s the only one who believes his mother is still alive.

Nobody else needs to get hurt if he doesn’t tell them what he’s doing.

But however hard Sergei tries to keep his double life a secret, Cam still shows up to save him whenever he’s in trouble, like Cam has some kind of magical sixth sense—a sense that keeps them bonded together no matter what. And when Sergei finally breaks through his dreams into a world where monsters lurk and reality changes on a whim…where having magic carries a death sentence…the stakes of this game could be far higher than Sergei wants to pay. Now it’s not just his life on the line—he’s dragged people he cares about into danger with him.

He thought he could risk himself alone. But will his single-minded mission to find his mother be worth the price everyone he loves has to pay?

Stranger Things meets epic fantasy in award-winning author Angela Boord’s new Cold War portal fantasy set in a world of ever-shifting conspiracy and quantum magic, where even reality itself can’t be trusted, and family isn’t just about who you’re related to.

By Angela Boord

Fortune’s Fool

Eterean Empire, Book 1

 

SPFBO 5 Second Place Winner!
Stabby Nominee Best Debut 2019!
One of Fantasy Book Review’s Best Books of 2019!

A secret affair. A disfiguring punishment. A burning need for revenge.

Kyrra d’Aliente has a bad reputation and an arm made of metal. Played as a pawn in a game of feuding Houses, blamed for the war that destroyed both her family and the man she loves…Kyrra now survives by disguising herself as a man. Only one thing keeps her battling through this new and dangerous world of mercenaries and spies: she believes Arsenault is alive, and she will stop at nothing to find him. But when Kyrra is offered the chance to assassinate the man who betrayed her, igniting the war, the seductive song of revenge changes everything.

In a world of scheming gods and precarious loyalties, vengeance can only come at a deadly cost. Now Kyrra must choose between killing the man who stole everything from her…or rescuing the man who helped her reclaim her life.

Pick up your copy of Fortune’s Fool today and sink into this lyrical and dark Renaissance fantasy world by award-winning author Angela Boord–perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Juliet Marillier!

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Boord has given us a rare novel that combines crisp, cadenced prose with wonderful, deep, complex characters and a twisting plot that keeps you guessing all set in a brilliantly realized fantasy world. It will appeal especially to fans of Robin Hobb, with prose every bit as evocative and characters every bit as authentic as that master storyteller. Fortune’s Fool should be on the top of your TBR pile.

– Calvin Park, Fantasy Book Review

Angela Boord writes twisty epic fantasy novels with lots of character-driven action, mostly at her kitchen table surrounded by Legos. She lives with her husband and children in northern Mississippi and is hard at work on more stories in the Eterean Empire and Rai Ascendant universes.