Burning Away

Lyria, a kingdom of people blessed with the knowledge of soulmates and destiny, is also plagued with eternal life until soulmates meet and stay together, only aging when in proximity of each other. Varra had been hunted her whole life. Just because she’d had the misfortune of being born the Queen’s soulmate. Queen Cassandra, the Eternal Monarch, had sat on the throne for the last five hundred years. In order to keep her immortality and power, she’d spent her days tracking down and killing each of her soulmates. Varra was no exception. When Varra sets out on her own, an adventure unfurls, embroiling her and everyone around her in secrets, magic, betrayal, love, and grave peril. An LGBT+ fantasy adventure romance, this is Selina Leonard's first published novel striving towards providing better representation to as many marginalized communities as possible. Content Warnings: Suicidal Thoughts/Ideations, Mentions of Suicide, Emotional Abuse (Familial), Difficult/Abusive Parental Relationships, Mentions of Sexual Abuse, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Gender Dysphoria, Transphobia, Mentions of Homophobia, Casual Mentions of Death and Murder