Blurb:

“Magic might be this city’s first currency, but blood is its second.”
They survived mancers. They survived monsters. They survived the Storm.

With the mountains behind them and Illredus on the horizon, they thought the hardest part of the journey over.

They were wrong.

Outlawed and on the run, Lyss struggles to control her new and volatile magic. A magic that will destroy her.

Her only hope: Find the last remaining witch to tame it.

Her only clue: Buried in Illredus. City of mancers. Capital of the Empire.

Together, she and Skaar descend into Illredus’ underbelly and discover a warren of illegal magics and the monstrous legacy Lyss’ father left behind.

As truth, loyalties, and magic clash, Lyss must decide how far she’ll go to exact justice in her father’s name…

And how far she’ll fall to rule the power inside her once and for all.

Author: Nikky Lee

Book Title: The Rarkyn's Fall (Book 2 of the Rarkyn Trilogy)

Cover Artist: Isabeau Backhaus

Page Count: 570

Publisher: Caelestis Books

Genre: (Dark/Epic), YA/NA

Available Formats: eBook, Paperback, Hardcover

Trigger Warnings: • Mild: Cursing • Medium: Violence, confinement, illness/disability (scoliosis), inflicted injury/wounds, blood. • Graphic: Gore, torture, death, death of a parent, burn victims.

Author Bio:

Nikky Lee is an award-winning author who grew up as a barefoot 90s kid in Perth, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand with a husband, a dog and a couch potato cat. In her free time, she writes speculative fiction, often burning the candle at both ends to explore fantastic worlds, mine asteroids and meet wizards. She's had over two dozen stories published in magazines, anthologies and on the radio.​

Her short fiction has won three Aurealis Awards, with her novelette Dingo & Sister winning Best Young Adult Short Story and Best Fantasy Novella in 2020, and her novella Once We Flew winning Best Science Fiction Novella in 2023. In 2021, she received a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. Her debut novel The Rarkyn's Familiar won the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel, three Indie Ink Awards, and Bronze in Young Adult Fiction at the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

Website: www.nikkythewriter.com | Instagram & Threads: @nikkymlee | Facebook: /nikkythewriter | TikTok: @nikkymlee