WILD SKY by Zaya Feli
Publisher: Self-published
Release Date: Ebook: August 24th | Print: TBD
Length: Ebook: 189,000 words
Subgenre: Fantasy/Romance
Warnings: mentions of symptoms of depression and PTSD. Medicine addiction and withdrawal.
Book blurb:
Tauran Darrica has been retired from the Valreus Sky Guard for four years following the Battle of the Broken Wings that resulted in the death of his dragon. Now, all Tauran wants to do is spend his days forgetting the past and gambling his way to an unsteady income.
So when his old general from the Sky Guard hunts Tauran down to request his help with staving off the increasingly aggressive wild dragon population, Tauran refuses. But a fire ruins his rented room and leaves him without a place to stay, and Tauran finds himself on the road to Valreus, after all.
Tauran is determined to stay as far away from dragons as he can get, but a starry-eyed young man from Sharoani, land of the wild dragons, might just ruin his plans.
Kalai Ro-Ani has spent his life watching the stars, knowing he could never reach them.
With his wild dragon Arrow, he sets out for the city of Valreus in the hope of building himself a better future than he could have stuck at the foot of the Kel Visal dragon temples.
But nobody told Kalai that only the Sky Guard is allowed to own dragons, so when Arrow kills a guard in Kalai’s defense, it looks like his adventure might be over before it can begin. But a chance encounter at the old Valreus archive offers Kalai the future he’d been hoping for. In the span of a single day, he has a home, a job, and a purpose.
In Valreus, something much bigger falls into his lap – along with a tall and striking Valrean man with a rather strange disposition.
A new, LGBT+ fantasy story from Zaya Feli, featuring dragons, aerial battles and epic journeys through dangerous wilderness.
Kalai loosened his grip on Tauran’s hands, and Tauran clung tighter.
“Don’t let go,” he hissed, and it sounded a little too much like begging for his taste. His hands were cold and shaking in Kalai’s warm, steady hold.
“I won’t,” Kalai promised, then craned his neck back. “Look up.”
Slowly, because Tauran didn’t quite trust his eyes not to wander to the drop beside him, he tilted his head up.
He exhaled. Kalai was right. Normally, the city lights dulled the stars, but the night was a particularly clear one. They shone and twinkled against a faint band of color sprinkled like glittering dust above their heads. Valreus was a sight to behold, with its fountains and waterways and neatly trimmed flower gardens, but it had nothing on the world that lay above it, endless and breathtaking. Tauran’s world, once.
“Woah,” Tauran said softly, when the view turned him dizzy.
Kalai’s laugh was soft and sweet as honey when he wrapped his arms around Tauran’s shoulders to steady him.
They leaned against each other. Tauran allowed himself to soak up the moment, let the slow rise and fall of Kalai’s breaths calm his heart.
“Imagine being up there.” Kalai’s voice was a whisper in Tauran’s ear. “Close to the stars.”
“You should see it,” Tauran replied.
Kalai leaned back so he could look him in the eyes. “You really think I’ll be able to fly?”
“I do.”
Zaya Feli grew up in various small towns in eastern Denmark where she spent most of her childhood and youth daydreaming about strange and incredible fantasy worlds. In 2018, she moved to northern Denmark with her pet snake, Helix, to work as a web developer, and is now dedicating all her free time turning the fantasy worlds inside her head into words and illustrations on the page.
An avid sci fi and fantasy fan since childhood, she also has a deep love for history, archery, nature, language and art.
Zaya Feli released her debut novel, Stag’s Run, in November 2016, and has since released four more full length novels and a short story. Her favourite genres are fantasy and sci-fi with a sprinkle of romance.
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