Book guide
The Bird and the Sword
A cursed young woman trapped by prophecy and her father’s ambition must seek freedom in a kingdom where love may be the last surviving magic.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
About The Bird and the Sword
"Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ’til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ’til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive." The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love ... a bird?
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
The Bird and the Sword Chronicles · Book 1 of 2
Content warnings
- parental death
- emotional abuse
- captivity/imprisonment
- violence
- grief
- trauma
- sexual content
