Astrid Amara’s debut novel, The Archer’s Heart was a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.

Book Two continues the story of Jandu and Keshan as they struggle against tradition to forge a life together.

“I often find myself sighing over the pseudo medieval setting in many a fantasy novel and then hoping something else in the book — the prose, the plot, characters, other aspects of the worldbuilding, anything — will make up for it. And then I read a book like this and I ask myself why I should even settle in the first place.” —Jia, Dear Author