House of Rising Sands

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>HOUSE OF RISING SANDS is an origin story preceding the events of HOUSE OF BEATING WINGS yet should be read </em>after<em> book 1.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For five hundred years my people and I have been locked on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean because of my mother's cruel magic.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Although I dreamed of escaping our prison I never imagined a day would come when I could.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But that day came and with it a destiny that bound me to a winged beast of a man.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Crow.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Crow.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>*Zendaya and Cathal's love story was originally published in the Bookish Box's 2022 Holiday Anthology. It's a 10K word novella.</em></p>