Drea Talley
Witchery, kismet, and self-saving princesses.
Seer of the Strait
A fantasy novel with visions, spirits, and intrigue. Coming June 25, 2024.
The Broken Crown
A steampunk flavored fantasy about an exiled princess and the throne she must retake. Coming 2025.
Hunter of Stars
An epic fantasy about two women who must become unlikely allies against a religion's murderous zealotry. Coming in 2026.
Seer of the Strait
Vasi, Watcher of the Strait, southernmost of the Kingdoms of Dawn, is a place of tradition. Gifted seer and third generation witch, Carys Arslan keeps her late grandmother’s shop and spends her days selling herbs, tinctures, and reading the cards for the rich merchants of the Great Families and the nobles of the Three Houses. When a favorite client invites her to a party at Watcher’s Castle, Carys senses that she needs to be there, that something important will happen. When the party ends with Carys casting the cards for the Heir of the Strait, she sees that a danger lurks on the horizon, racing towards them from across the sea.A seer’s visions are not to be ignored, and Carys is pulled from her shop, from everything she’s ever known, to assume the position of Lord’s Seer and advise the Lord of the Strait and the Three Houses. Days later, a ship unlike anything the kingdom has seen is spotted off the coast. It finally arrives in the harbor, bearing an ambassador and soldiers from the long silent empire to the south. They claim to come to trade and learn, but the spirits have shown Carys the ambition that drives them. Carys can see they will not stop until Vasi, and all the Kingdoms of Dawn, have fallen to the southern Empire. Carys' power is growing, but her training was incomplete. Will strength alone be enough to stop them?
The Broken Crown
Banished 10 years ago from her father’s kingdom, Eira has little interest in helping those who betrayed her, even if she is their only hope of fending off the opportunists who seek to claim her birthright for their own. Yet her country needs its queen - at war for two decades with the nation to the south, they believe their salvation lies in a strange device that can only be wielded by the royal family. Once convinced to return, Eira must face rivals, traitors, a military coup, and a people divided on her journey to the Crown.
Hunter of Stars
From the time she was five, Aina begged to join the Order of the Axe and Claw, to be one of the brave warriors who protected Taipumat and the most Holy Church from the monsters of the world. Monsters which included the Starstruck, men and women who had been mutated by wild magic during the Night of Falling, when the stars fell from the sky and changed everything. Aina is given the face name of Rabbit, and sent into the world with her mentor, Badger, to find a particular Starstruck—a woman known as Mavis, who lives in the heretical kingdom of Portamare. The Order believes Mavis is the key to finding who leads the Starstruck, and finally stamping out these dangerous heretics once and for all. But Rabbit has never left Taipumat before, has never met a Starstruck outside of battle. In a foreign land, where everything is less black and white, even the most unswaying blind faith may falter.