Cover Reveal and Free Short Story
May 29, 2025 6:01 pm
Contents:
- The official cover reveal for my upcoming fantasy novel, A Guardian's Vow,
- Thriller and Fantasy Madness Giveaway,
- A selection of releases from my author friends, and
- An all-new fantasy short story you can read for free!
Hey, Street Team!
We're about a month away from the release of A Guardian's Vow, a contemporary fantasy romance standalone that I've been working on in secret for years.
This book is full of mystery, magic, and a family curse that has been lingering ever since the Middle Ages. It has an epic mythology bent and characters powerful enough to convince me to write over 400 pages of their story.
Given the amount of time and effort spent on a larger project like this, I'm thrilled to share a cover that I think really captures the atmosphere and emotional pull of the book.
As with my other fantasy standalone, Never, Never, I have a free short story available that acts as a precursor to A Guardian's Vow.
You'll find this short story ("Curses And Caviar") in the Author News section at the bottom of this email, so stay tuned for more fantasy romance goodness!
Thriller and Fantasy Madness Giveaways
Recommended Reads:
Welcome to Where
While running away from his troubled past, a Parisian live performer enters a bizarre and obscure avant-garde theatrical scene and finds himself hunted by the most unsuspected criminals the city has ever seen. What waits for him in Where?
Betrothed to An Alien Shifter
I traveled a million miles across the universe to meet my fiance, and one glance tells me he hates me.
Desperate to escape the zombie apocalypse that has taken over the Earth, Jane jumped at the chance of becoming bride to the son of an Alien Prime Minister
But Tarqi didn’t chose her, like she thought. In fact, he never knew until the morning of her arrival that he was to be bonded to a human, and he loathes the idea... [sic]
Sparking Magic
I don’t know who I am. I don’t know how I got here. All I do know is if I stop running, I will never be free. When I burst from the woods into a rush of headlights and asphalt and open night sky, I think I’ve made it. I’m free. I’m safe. Then blinding energy explodes in front of me and the last thing I see before it all goes dark is a handsome face hovering over mine. Yay me, right? I awake to find myself magicked to a hospital bed with some non-handsome guy telling me my magic is uncontrolled and dangerous. The way they see it, the choice is simple: enroll in their magic academy and learn to manage my power or spend the rest of my life in a cage...
Flying on The Ground
Richie Billing’s short fiction has been published by Kzine, TANSTAAFL Press, Fiction Vortex, Far Horizons, Writing on the Wall and a dozen more. Flying on the Ground is a collection of the majority of these pieces, in addition to two stories unseen by the eyes of the world.
Inside, you'll find twelve short stories from the genres of fantasy, historical fiction, general fiction, horror and crime. Tales of adventure, of intrigue, of defiance, love and the morally grey, exploring myriad themes from loneliness, fear, and pride, to the nature of creativity and the cycle of addiction, to name a few.
Cursed Mage
Every family has secrets. Hers are trying to kill her.
Kaija can’t wait to dive into university and leave the wreckage of her past behind. But becoming an orphan and moving in with her weird rich uncle wasn’t on the cards. Neither was discovering she’s a mythical Mage—and something rarer that the unscrupulous ruling party would kill to possess...
Darkness Below
Nightmares. Disappearances. Suicide.
Fall semester is always a challenging time at Miskatonic University. All Ellen Logan wants to do is pass her classes while holding down a bad job at a New Age bookstore...
Author News (And Free Short Story!)
Here goes. "Curses and Caviar" is my new short story tie-in to A Guardian's Vow, and it's now available for reading!
August 12, 1927
Kevin Winthrop is a man with a dark secret who lives in a world of glamor, orchestra-laden parties, and exotic social encounters.
When one woman threatens to uncover the family curse Kevin has been holding back, he finds himself torn between betraying his line or breaking her heart forever.
Ciao!
Sierra
