FEATURING:

- Dark Political Fantasy!

- Accidental Acquisition of a Magical Child!

- Toxic Lesbians & Bisexuals!

- Explores how Identity is Reshaped Under Empire!

RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVES:

- All-new Dust Jacket illustrated by @AnNguyenArt!

- Cover and interior design by @ManicFemme!

- Stamped Hardcase Design by @ManicFemme!

- Patterned Endpages & Printed Edges by @AnNguyenArt!

- Bonus Full Color Art Gallery by the Author!

- Signed by the Author!

Synopsis: In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love?

With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi must find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their homes and conscripting them into service.

Hammer was one of those children. Now, she’s a jaded soldier waging Ashvi’s perpetual war, thinking only of her own survival. But when she accidentally rescues Viridian, a child with rare and potentially devastating powers, her priorities shift. The girl appears to be the answer to the queen’s prayers—the perfect weapon to restore her kingdom’s ancient borders, even if the colonized cities they reconquer don’t want her version of liberation. Can Hammer protect Viridian from the system that broke her… before the girl’s power is unleashed on the world?

Rep: wlw & mlm, bisexual mc, lesbian mc, bisexual li, pansexual li, nonbinary sc, gay sc, queernormative world

CWs: violence, death, child abuse, bodily fluid, ethnocentrism, depictions of PTSD, slave-soldiers, kidnapping, animal death