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Grand Prize winner of the Writer's Digest 8th Annual Self-Published E-book Awards (2020)

Arden Finch's big dreams for her future risk becoming nightmares.After stopping the Wild Hunt and preventing the end of the world, Arden thought she could take a break. But the mundane backlash against supernaturals is getting worse, and Otherside abhors a power vacuum. When someone dumps a vampire-bitten corpse at the North Carolina governor's mansion, tensions boil over. With rioting humans on one side and invading vampires on another, Arden must decide how far she'll go to secure her authority as Arbiter. A step in the wrong direction will bring war to the Triangle and threaten everything Arden has built. And with the trickster gods stirring, all her illusions about power will be tested to see if they can stand the weight of this new world-or if they'll shatter under the pressure.Arden, Troy, Maria, and your other favorites are back in the first book of the Shadows of Otherside Trickster Cycle. The stakes are higher and the danger is greater than ever before, forcing Arden to lean into new powers and leave the Triangle to deal with new threats.This book is set a year after the epilogue in Eternal Huntress and continues Arden Finch's story in the Otherside universe. If you'd like to start at the beginning of the series, read Elemental.Content warningsThis book contains strong physical violence and gore, on-page death, swearing, slurs (not toward any real racial or ethnic group/identity), alcohol use, knife violence, threat of sexual violence, mention of past abuse by a guardian, deadnaming, kidnapping, state-sanctioned violence, blood-drinking, and consensual on-page sex scenes.

More power, more problems. As Arden Finch's magical strength grows, so does the number of people who want her under control. With the elementals, the mundanes, and out-of-state elves all making demands, she and Troy must act fast to secure their power. The first elven summit in decades offers opportunities to do so, but forces Arden to take drastic action. Amidst the turmoil, Troy's past looms, threatening to drive a wedge between them. Satisfying everyone is already a long shot, but the trickster gods want something too. Pressure grows as they offer Arden riddles and gifts as hints to a forgotten pact-one they want her to honor. Arden will have to own the roles she's claimed and find bold solutions for a new future or watch everything crash down around her.Content warnings: This book contains strong physical violence and gore, on-page death, swearing, slurs (not toward any real racial or ethnic group/identity), alcohol use, knife violence, threat of sexual violence, mention of past abuse by a guardian, threats by law enforcement, blood-drinking, and consensual on-page sex scenes.

Sometimes taking the high road isn't an option.The elven summit taught Arden Finch one thing: that some people only respond to tough consequences. It's not the way she wants to rule, but securing her territory and her home comes first-especially when werewolf blood finds its way into human hands.Now Arden must tackle the threat the mundanes have become, even if it exposes her true power to the Bureau for Supernatural Investigation. When she's also forced to confront betrayal from her own people, the fallout is deadly.All that would be difficult enough on its own, but both Arden's magic and the trickster gods are making more trouble for her. Hell breaks loose like never before, leaving Arden to face her greatest challenge since the Wild Hunt.Content warnings: This book contains strong physical violence and gore, on-page death, swearing, slurs (not toward any real racial or ethnic group/identity), alcohol use, knife violence, threat of sexual violence, mention of past abuse by a guardian, threats by law enforcement, blood-drinking, and consensual on-page sex scenes.

With magic gone, Otherside is more vulnerable than it has ever been. Arden Finch can steal magic back, but that means risking her life and Troy's to Dreamwalk through the underworld in a series of tests. Even with a squad and celestial help, the trials could have dire consequences. Surviving and succeeding will require Arden to make unlikely alliances and face her own nightmares, but that's easier said than done. Restoring magic is a race against time, and secrets pile up while threats abound from all sides. Assassins move in the shadows, the mundane protests are escalating, and the Bureau for Supernatural Investigation wants Arden to be their tame elemental. As the pressure drives Arden past her limits, some think she is losing control. If that happens, lives and magic will be lost too-forever.