The Sun Blessed Prince

‘An ambitious and compelling tale of deadly court intrigue and star-crossed lovers’
– Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong

SEPARATED BY WAR. UNITED BY FATE.

Prince Elician is a Giver. He can heal wounds and return the dead 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. And when one attacks Prince Elician, the Reaper expects a terrible punishment. Instead, Elician offers Cat sanctuary on enemy territory.

Cat hadn't realized life could be worth living – until the prince. Yet Elician’s enemy plans to turn this kindness against him. Elician's sister, Fen, must somehow master her own volatile powers to serve her country – while a deadly plot comes to light featuring abduction, treachery and forbidden magic. Tensions escalate from the court to the battlefield. And can those who wield the powers of life and death find a path to peace?

A powerful and richly imagined tale from a bold new voice in fantasy fiction, Lindsey Byrd’s The Sun Blessed Prince is a sweeping, enemies-to-lovers and found-family adventure.

'I loved this charming, slow burn queer fantasy romance . . . Byrd expertly weaves in war and intrigue'
– T. L. Huchu

‘Delicious romance and thorny court intrigue keep the pages turning, and a clever late plot twist shocks. This hits all the right notes’
– Publishers Weekly

Readers have fallen in love with The Sun Blessed Prince:

‘Really excellent political/epic fantasy with the slowest, *softest* slow burn queer romantic subplot’

‘I absolutely love the magic system’

‘There were plot twists after plot twists, my jaw literally was on the ground for half of it’

‘Made me sob to the point where I had to stop reading for a second’

‘I just loved it’