ARCANA Book I: THE HIEROPHANT
Instead of partying with her friends during her senior year of high school, Ana is spending all her free time learning to defend herself with magic. For some reason, she’s begun to see into the world of faeries and demons, and that means they can see her–and hurt her–too. Things only get more complicated when she falls in love with her teacher, a fae named Trebor, who is forbidden by angelic law to love her back.
But as rumors of Ana’s new powers circulate among the magical world, local demons hatch a plan to bring her into their fold–by kidnapping Trebor, and holding him hostage in the Underworld. Suddenly, Ana finds herself embroiled in a war between Order and Chaos that is as old as time itself, struggling to save the fae she loves without losing herself in the process. Because in the end, the biggest battle Ana will ultimately face is not against the demons in her world or the devils below, but with the darkness of her own human heart.
Filled with mythology, magic, forbidden love, and a trip to Hell and back, THE HIEROPHANT is the first book in the ARCANA series, a trilogy about the beauty of chaos and the magic of the human (and non-human) heart.
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The Hierophant (Arcana, Book I) is a YA modern fantasy/paranormal romance. In writing this series, I’ve drawn heavily from my background in cultural anthropology, classics, and studies in religion and spirituality. I’ve also drawn from my personal reaction to underwhelming heroines in modern YA. Ana is not perfect, but she came to me as a very real, very stubborn, but very begrudgingly mature young woman, demanding that her story be told. Her story continues in Book II: The Tower.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it :)