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POWER OF FIVE

About the Book:
Title: POWER OF FIVE
Author: Alex Lidell
Pub. Date: May 4, 2018
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 312
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Four elite fae warriors. One mortal female. A magical bond they can’t allow—or resist.

Orphaned and sold to a harsh master, Lera’s life is about mucking stalls, avoiding her master’s advances, and steering clear of the mystical forest separating the mortal and fae worlds. Only fools venture into the immortal realms, and only dark rumors come out… Until four powerful fae warriors appear at Lera’s barn.

River, Coal, Tye, and Shade have waited a decade for their new fifth to be chosen, the wounds from their quint brother’s loss still raw. But the magic has played a cruel trick, bonding the four immortal warriors to… a female. A mortal female.

Distractingly beautiful and dangerously frail, Lera can only be one thing—a mistake. Yet as the males bring Lera back to the fae lands to sever the bond, they discover that she holds more power over their souls than is safe for anyone… especially for Lera herself.

Power of Five is a full-length reverse-harem fantasy novel.

“No,” River told the magic pulsing through the wet earth beneath his palm. Not that the magic much cared for River’s opinion. “Bloody no. That cannot be our fifth.”

Stepping up beside him, River’s quint brothers, Tye, Coal, and Shade—the latter in his wolf form—stared down from Mystwood’s overlook to watch a mortal girl of about twenty push a wheelbarrow toward a compost pile. Her lush hair was a fiery brown hue that toyed with the sun’s rays as the girl went about her work, dumping off her load of manure and pushing the wheelbarrow back toward the stable.

The estate on which the girl labored sprawled daringly close to the border to Mystwood, the dense forest separating the mortal lands from the fae’s Lunos territory. Unsurprisingly, minus a handful of inns and taverns catering to the more curious mortals—or lost ones—the closest village lay a full day’s ride away. No one wished to live closer to Mystwood than they had to—no one, it seemed, except the estate’s master.

The girl stopped and brought her hands up to her face, breathing on her fingers. Dressed in too-short pants, oversized boots that stayed up only thanks to old gray stockings, and a threadbare cream tunic that tried and failed to conceal her curves, she had to be freezing in the cool wind. It made River simultaneously want to envelop the girl in his arms and disembowel her overseer. Neither of which would be happening.

“That is female,” Tye said after a moment.

“That is mortal,” Coal added.

“That is a mistake,” River declared with a finality he did not feel. If the girl was a mistake, his entire being wanted to be beside her anyway. His bones tingled with the pull of it even as he straightened to his full height, his voice a mix of command and dismissive closure. “One we must correct as expeditiously as possible.”

About Alex:

Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin, 2013). She is an avid horseback rider, a (bad) hockey player, and an ice-cream addict. Born in Russia, Alex learned English in elementary school, where a thoughtful librarian placed a copy of Tamora Pierce’s ALANNA in Alex’s hands. In addition to becoming the first English book Alex read for fun, ALANNA started Alex’s life long love for YA fantasy books. Alex is represented by Leigh Feldman of Leigh Feldman Literary. She lives in Washington, DC.

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