Now, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures from a foreign queen, and an evil new leader on the rise, Crier and Ayla find there may be only one path to love: war. Nina is represented by Patrice Caldwell at New Leaf Literary. She is the author of the Crier’s War duology and Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom. She writes stories about queer kids, magic, and the magic of queer kids. There was no beginning to her, no end, no parameters her body was not the truth of her Ayla knew that Crier herself was something as wide and endless as the ice fields or the black sea or the evening sky, just as the first stars were beginning to appear. Perfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Curse as well as Game of Thrones and Westworld. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn’t the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla. These days, Nina lives in Los Angeles with her tiny, ill-behaved dog. From debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girlsone human, one Madewhose romance could be the beginning of a revolution. Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family’s death…by killing the sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier.Ĭrier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father’s legacy. Īfter the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will. From debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls-one human, one Made-whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution.

Crier's War by Nina Varela