Beyond the Tears of the Weeping Willow

A K Brown

Type: Beta project
Genre: Fantasy, romance
Word count: 111,000 

In a realm where balance must prevail, Ophelia Erishkigal has tipped the scales. After a deadly plague claims everyone she loves, Ophelia resigns herself to solitude– until a partially redacted letter arrives from the brother believed dead. Thrust beyond the veil into a realm divided into Arcana, Ophelia uncovers an impossible truth: her family never died. They were awakened instead.

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In a realm where balance must prevail, Ophelia Erishkigal has tipped the scales. After a deadly plague claims everyone she loves, Ophelia resigns herself to solitude– until a partially redacted letter arrives from the brother believed dead.

Thrust beyond the veil into a hidden realm divided into Arcana, where regions draw power from the Major Arcana tarot, Ophelia discovers an impossible truth: her family never died. They were awakened.

But something sinister stirs beneath the realm’s fragile balance. To save her brother from Thierry, a malevolent force manipulating awakenings for his own gain, Ophelia must confront her deepest shadows and embrace a power she never knew she possessed before she is forced back behind the veil.

Reluctantly allied with Elex, a man bound to her by an unexpected magical tether, Ophelia navigates dangerous truths about Thierry’s forced awakenings, the consequences of imbalance, and a slow-burning attraction she cannot ignore.

A.K. Brown is a 27-year-old romantasy author and passionate romantasy reader. Beyond the Tears of the Weeping Willows is the first novel in her planned series, The Awakened Series. Inspired by themes of spiritual awakening, shadow work, grief, healing and the archetypes of tarot, she writes character-driven fantasy that explores the balance between fate and free will. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found reading, crocheting, walking outdoors or dreaming up new realms and characters for future books.

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