A Tale of Two Crowns Duology

On a hotly-contested battlefield, a prince whose touch creates life meets a soldier chosen by death. But can they forge a future together, from opposite sides of a great war? A lyrical and character-driven queer fantasy for those who loved She Who Became the Sun, The Song of Achilles and...

Prince Elician is a Giver. He can heal any wound and bring the dead back to life. He also can’t be killed, so is cursed to watch his country wage an endless war. Reapers can kill with a single touch. When one attacks Prince Elician near a hotly contested battlefield, but fails, the Reaper expects a terrible punishment. Instead, Elician offers him a chance at a new life and a new name on enemy territory. Cat, as Elician calls him, hadn’t realized he could ever find something, or someone, to make life worth living—until the prince.

Elician, a Giver with the power to raise the dead, is crowned King of Soleb, but it’s forbidden for Givers to rule. However, Elician is determined to end a generations-long war with the kingdom of Alelune–and will marry Alelune's rightful heir to do so. But Cat is a Reaper, able to kill with a touch, and is therefore feared by his own people. His claim to the throne is a gamble at best, until his tyrannical brother, Gillage, seizes power before Cat can lay his claim to it–and now the conflict Elician had hoped to avoid seems inevitable.

'An ambitious and compelling tale of deadly court intrigue and star-crossed lovers' Lucy Holland on book one, The Sun Blessed Prince Can two rulers with power over life cheat death to save two nations locked in war? Elician is crowned King of Soleb, but all is not well. He is a Giver, with the...