Sword of the Seven Sins: A YA Romantic Dystopian Fantasy
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Eva Marteinn, a reluctant prodigy with a hidden gift for killing, is thrust into the brutal world of the Commonwealth's elite executioners. Her mentor, Ari Westergaard, is everything she fears: skilled, ruthless, and irresistibly tempting.
As Eva struggles with her newfound powers and Ari grapples with his forbidden feelings, they uncover a conspiracy that could topple the Commonwealth itself. Caught between loyalty and rebellion, Eva and Ari must decide if their love is worth risking everything.
Fans of Divergent and Fourth Wing will be captivated by this dark, seductive tale of power, betrayal, and the ultimate forbidden love.
WINNER, North Carolina Indie Author Award in Young Adult Fiction
WINNER, Gold Moonbeam Award for Best Book Series
FINALIST, Foreword INDIES Award in Young Adult Fiction
SHORTLISTED, The Manly Wade Wellman Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
“Absolutely unputdownable.” —Michelle Hazen, author of Breathe the Sky
“I couldn’t stop reading. This is the best book I’ve read in a long time.” —YA Books Central
“Sizzling hot and exploding with tension.”—Lisa Amowitz, award-winning author of Breaking Glass
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About the author
Emily Colin wrote her first romance novel in the fourth grade and never looked back. Today. she is the New York Times bestselling author of adult and young adult fiction featuring love stories with a supernatural edge. She writes dystopian romance, romantic fantasy, paranormal romance, and romantic book club fiction. Basically, if it’s got a love story, she’s into it!
For young adults, she is the author of the Moonbeam Award-winning romantic dystopian-fantasy series, The Seven Sins. Sword of the Seven Sins, the first book, was a Foreword INDIES Award finalist, won the YA fiction award of the North Carolina Indie Author Project, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy. The second novel, Siege of the Seven Sins, was a 2021 silver IPPY Award winner and Foreword INDIES finalist. Emily co-edited and contributed to the young adult anthologies Wicked South: Secrets and Lies and Unbound: Stories of Transformation, Love, and Monsters, which was a Suspense Magazine Best of” 2021 pick as well as a 2021 INDIES Award finalist.
For adults, she is the author of The Memory Thief, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Target Emerging Authors Pick, and The Dream Keeper’s Daughter, which Publishers Weekly called “a splendid mix of time travel, romantic yearning, and moving on after grief.” Dissent, the 2022 romance anthology to which she contributed a short story, hit the USA Today bestseller list the week of its release.
In her non-writing life, Emily has over two decades’ experience in the fields of arts education and creative youth development. She's also organized a Coney Island tattoo and piercing show, hauled fish at a dolphin research center, and roamed New York City (and Italy!) as a teenage violinist. Originally from Brooklyn, she writes, teaches, edits, and indulges her mocha addiction by the sea in North Carolina.
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