The prophecy states she will appear as the third daughter of a third daughter.
Instead, the maiden slips into a slumber from which she will not wake.Īs the church hunts down the person responsible for the Third Daughter’s condition, Sabine and Elodie must work together to find a way to wake her before Elodie’s siblings learn the truth and Sabine loses her magic – and herself – to the darkness that threatens to consume her.Book 1 in a sweeping fantasy duology about legacy, betrayal, sisterhood, and politicizing emotion in the quest for power-all balanced by a slow-burn LGBTQ romance.įor centuries, the country of Velle has waited for their highest deity, the New Maiden, to return. Sabine’s sadness does not kill the young queen. But Sabine mistakenly sends Elodie away not with the poison she requests, but with a vial of her tears. Just a single tear added to one of her mother’s potions enhances the brew tenfold.
Desperate, Elodie slips away to the Midnight Market to purchase poison from an apothecary. To do so, she must eliminate the Third Daughter – her own sister. The only way to preserve her mother’s legacy is to retake the throne. When her mother unexpectedly passes and her young sister takes the throne, Elodie’s future in Velle is threatened by a vindictive chaplain and a church wielding ultimate power. When the fabled child is finally born to Velle’s reigning queen, the only citizen who does not rejoice is Elodie: the queen’s eldest daughter who has lost her claim to the crown. The prophecy tells not when, but how she will appear: as the third daughter of a third daughter. The Third Daughter is a sapphic, dual POV fantasy that blends the complex family politics of Kendare Blake’s Three Dark Crowns and the sweeping lore of Marie Rutkoski’s The Midnight Lie in an examination of power, the roles we are born into, and the impact of our emotions.įor centuries, the country of Velle has waited for their highest deity, the New Maiden, to return.
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