Cover Reveal: Fortune’s Wake!
Kill the beast. Get the girl. Profit…?
Honestly, cover reveals are one of my favorite parts of this gig because I’ve been so incredibly lucky. First Tommy Arnold for the Magic of the Lost trilogy, then Mary Metzger for Fate’s Bane, and now—
Give it up, everyone, for this killer art by Rene Aigner! And three cheers for the design by Adrian M. Gibson!
Without further ado, say hello to Kova of Stormwatch, my young and impetuous trouble-maker and her mentor, Sayre Boarbane who is always one breath away from tying her up and sitting her in a corner.
Fortune’s Wake arrives August 24, 2026.
Kill the beast. Earn some coin. Get the girl.
Or at least, that’s how it was supposed to go. Kova of Stormwatch made a promise when she left her mother and sweetheart weeping on the shore back home: she’d earn her fortune slaying the beasts that haunt the woods and the horrors that lurk in the shadows, or she would die trying. But to do that, she needs an apprenticeship with a master monster hunter. The best of the best: Sayre Boarbane.
Pity that Sayre works alone.
When Sayre drags Kova home by the ear, they’re both in for a rude awakening. Kova’s mother? Missing. Kova’s lover? Taking long walks on the beach with a stranger.
And all those monsters Kova wanted to slay? They’re back in Stormwatch, dragging villagers into the ocean.
I love so much about this cover, from Kova’s scars and tattoos to Sayre’s rugged cragginess—but what blows me away every time is the COLOR. I have loved it since day 1. The color of the stone above, the blues, the vividness of the red-brown-purple in the stone and how the torch explodes it all. The color of the font just makes it all come together.
If you want more of a teaser, you can see how the first chapter started and the first draft—then, in a couple short months, you can compare it to the final form! You can also add it to your goodreads (where the genre is apparently just “lesbian”) or your storygraph or the tiny tbr notebook you keep.
As I mentioned in the June newsletter, you can order this book without doing it from Amazon by going to your local brick and mortar store and they’ll have access to ordering print copies. They will likely be available also on Bookshop.org (US). There will also be an audio edition—I just got an email with some auditions this week! And you can request it from your library!
Whatever edition you buy, I will not judge you. It’s hard out there with all of these locked systems. I’m grateful for your support no matter what.
Stay tuned for more news as soon as I can share it. 😇
Stay sharp, my friends.
C. L.
