His sister vanished. He will cross kingdoms to bring her home.

When his sister vanishes, Niles embarks on a perilous journey across a divided kingdom. But beneath his determination to bring her home lies a darker truth: he's haunted by the role he played in losing her. Along the way he'll find unexpected allies, forbidden love, and one last chance at redemption.

For readers who love found family, epic quests, forbidden romance, and emotionally rich fantasy.

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He has one chance to save his sister... and himself. 

Niles has spent years trying to outrun his past.

Haunted by the loss of the sister he failed to protect, he lives as an outcast in a land that barely tolerates his kind. But when disaster strikes his adopted village, he's forced onto a perilous journey into the North, a place ruled by ancient hatreds and deadly secrets.

Accompanied by unlikely allies and drawn toward a forbidden romance, Niles follows the faint hope that his sister may still be alive.

Yet the deeper he ventures into enemy territory, the more he must confront the truth he's spent years avoiding: finding his sister may require becoming the very thing he's always feared.

A sweeping fantasy adventure about family, redemption, and the courage to forge your own destiny.

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Tropes & Other Important Information

The Song of the Blackthorn Tree is a 160,000 word Epic Fantasy, set in a fictional, medieval world. Three characters make their way across a forbidding landscape on a quest to save a girl sold into slavery. 

Some of the tropes you'll find inside The Song of the Blackthorn Tree: 

• found family
• forbidden romance
• the reluctant hero
• the impossible quest
• coming of age
• the monster within

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About the Author

Rachel has been telling and writing stories her entire life. Before she could read or write, she drew pictures and told her brothers what to write in the captions - this was how she started writing books! 

By day, Rachel is a writing coach who helps writers of all lifestyles, backgrounds, genres, and levels of experience find their writing voices and finish their books. 

By night, she spins her own tales of fantasy, time travel, and other sorts of speculative fiction (whatever strikes her fancy that day). 

The Song of the Blackthorn Tree is the first in a series of Epic Fantasy novels which she has been crafting since the age of five years old. In addition to The Song of the Blackthorn Tree, Rachel also authored the increasingly popular web series entitled The Order (of the Occasionally Occult or Arcane), now being adapted into a novel. Rachel prefers writing and reading anything that is weird and whimsical, and fans of her work have lovingly called it "spectacularly strange." 

Rachel is a native Ohioan with a Bachelor of the Arts from The Ohio State University. She loves music, travel, and anything that pushes her creative limits. She lives with her husband and her cat, Jackie, and is always eagerly sniffing out the next great story.