The Sun Blessed Prince: The Burning, Lyrical Fantasy of Star-Crossed Lovers in a Mythological War
May 2025 · A Tale of Two Crowns Book 1 · Pan Macmillan
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SEPARATED BY WAR. UNITED BY FATE.
‘An ambitious and compelling tale of deadly court intrigue and star-crossed lovers’
– Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong
Prince Elician is a Giver, so 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. All this, while keeping his powers a closely guarded secret.
Cat is a Reaper and they can kill with a single touch. He’s been ordered to assassinate Prince Elician – and when he fails, he 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.
Meanwhile, Elician’s sister, Fen, must somehow master her volatile powers to serve her country as a deadly plot comes to light featuring treachery and forbidden magic. With tensions escalating from court to battlefield, can those who wield power find 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
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’
‘An ambitious and compelling tale of deadly court intrigue and star-crossed lovers’
– Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong
Prince Elician is a Giver, so 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. All this, while keeping his powers a closely guarded secret.
Cat is a Reaper and they can kill with a single touch. He’s been ordered to assassinate Prince Elician – and when he fails, he 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.
Meanwhile, Elician’s sister, Fen, must somehow master her volatile powers to serve her country as a deadly plot comes to light featuring treachery and forbidden magic. With tensions escalating from court to battlefield, can those who wield power find 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
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’
SEPARATED BY WAR. UNITED BY FATE.
‘An ambitious and compelling tale of deadly court intrigue and star-crossed lovers’
– Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong
Prince Elician is a Giver, so can heal wounds and return the dead to life. He also can’t be killed, so is cursed to watch his country wage a...
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Lindsey Byrd, author of The Sun Blessed Prince and The Moon Blessed King, is a historian and social scientist who travels and works internationally on health inequities and access to medicine. When she is not writing or reading about Tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance, Lindsey takes photos of birds and is steadily filling up her MerlinID Pokedex.
Lindsey Byrd, author of The Sun Blessed Prince and The Moon Blessed King, is a historian and social scientist who travels and works internationally on health inequities and access to medicine. When she is not writing or reading about Tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance, Lindsey takes photos...
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