Sword of the Seven Sins: A YA Romantic Dystopian Fantasy
About this ebook
Tech prodigy Eva is resigned to life in the Commonwealth, as long as she's behind a computer screen. To her horror, the Priests Choose her to train as a bellator, one of the Commonwealth's enforcers. She's eerily good at it. If only she weren't taunted at every turn by her deadly mentor, Ari, to whom she's bound by a blood oath. She's falling for the magnetic Ari, but in the Commonwealth, love is punishable by death.
Thrown into the life of a bellator, Eva is no longer a sheep of the Commonwealth, but a wolf, learning to patrol and kill. Her inexplicable strengths make her a top bellator, drawing unwanted attention. Meanwhile, as she and Ari train together, their antagonism becomes grudging respect. But the more time they spend together, the harder it is for Eva to resist the lure of his green eyes, his grace and power with a sword, and the charm beneath the sarcastic front he shows the world. Things take a treacherous turn when a heated night in the woods reveals a dangerous secret—Ari has loved Eva for years.
Their feelings put their lives at risk, but their love is too powerful to deny. Meanwhile, Eva's mysterious physical gifts heighten to a terrifying degree. Soon, Ari uncovers a secret that could take down the Commonwealth itself. Will Eva set aside her fears and fight for freedom with the boy she loves, knowing it might destroy them both?
Author's Note
If you love fierce girls with swords, infuriating guys with hearts of gold, forbidden love between a mentor and apprentice who can’t keep their hands off each other, and star-crossed lovers who fight to the death by each other’s sides, then this is the book for you.
WINNER of the 2021 North Carolina Indie Author Award in Young Adult Fiction
FINALIST for the 2020 Foreword INDIES Award in Young Adult Fiction
SHORTLISTED for the The Manly Wade Wellman Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
WINNER of the 2022 Gold Moonbeam Award for Best Book Series
With the propulsive action and addictive romance of Shatter Me, the high-stakes twists-and-turns of The Hunger Games, and the fantastical world-building of From Blood and Ash, this first book in the award-winning, slow-burn, romantic dystopian fantasy Seven Sins series will pull you in, break your heart, and never let you go.
“I couldn’t stop reading. This is the best book I’ve read in a long time.” —Michelle MacQueen, author of We Thought We Were Invincible, for YA Books Central
“Powerful, hopeful, sexy, and unsettling.” —Heidi Ayarbe, award-winning author of Freeze Frame
“Sizzling hot and exploding with tension.”—Lisa Amowitz, award-winning author of Breaking Glass
“An absolutely mind-blowing, spine-tingling, action-packed extravaganza…an electrifying, imaginative, phenomenally well-written book.” —Emerald Book Reviews
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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