CITY OF SOULS
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Winner, Agent’s Choice, RWNZ Great Beginnings Contest
Finalist, Best Novel, Sir Julius Vogel Awards
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Good Books | Unity Wellington | Marsden Books | Schrödinger’s Books
City of Souls is my paranormal romance debut novel. It’s the Winner, Agent’s Choice in the Romance Writers of New Zealand Great Beginnings Contest and a finalist for Best Novel in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. It’s the first book in a trilogy and was released on 9 November 2022.
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City of Souls Reviews:
If you at all enjoy urban fantasy romance in the vein of Kate Daniels or Nalini Singh, this is the book for you. Featuring all the greatest tropes: enemies-to-lovers! fake dating! magical bonds! wings! mysterious pasts! Fast-paced with intricate worldbuilding and characters you can't help but root for. This magic-melded version of Wellington, New Zealand, is vibrant and cleverly done. I enjoyed every second of this. — AJ Lancaster, Author of the Stariel series
I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this! City of Souls is FUN. It’s got the tension and danger of the Kate Daniels series and the complexity of Crescent City politics, and yet I think I preferred it to both of them. — Goodreads Review
Literally, I can’t even with this book. The descriptions of the cityscape and the war torn and decayed long ago decrepit fixtures are amazing… You will love it. Ugh, I’m thinking about it and getting verklempt. — Chick Lit Book Club Podcast
Although I’ve lived in the South Island for some years now, I’m a Wellington girl at heart. I spent the whole book thinking ‘Is this what paranormal romance is like for Americans??? This is amazing!’ Because I’ve never before had that experience of reading a book in which a place I am so familiar with is altered in such interesting ways. — SFF Romance Books
City of souls, Soul Court Ascension book one
Bounty hunter Hel’s life depends on staying below the radar and passing as human. But when the infuriating Lord of the City of Souls discovers her hidden power is the key to solving his problems, he reclaims her bond-debt and drags her into the spotlight. He’ll protect her secrets on one condition: that she does everything he asks.
Winged necromancer Bastion would do anything to save the city he rules from the strange magic menacing their world. Even blackmail the angry, intriguing bounty hunter who despises him. As the rulers of the elemental courts converge to face the threat, he’s not sure who hates him more—them or Hel. The only way to keep her close is to make her pretend she’s his.
With dark magic tearing at the fabric of reality and betrayal lurking behind every corner, Hel and Bastion’s fake relationship becomes the only thing either of them can rely on. But Bastion’s past might just come back to kill him.
And Hel’s might kill them all.
City of Souls is book one of the Soul Court Ascension trilogy—a steamy enemies to lovers Paranormal Romance with a side of Urban Fantasy. Available now.
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