My body is made of scars,some were done to me,but most I did to myself.
Keera is a killer. As the Kingâs Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the kingâs favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the so-called Shadow.
She tracks her target into the magical lands of the Fae, but Faeland is not what it seemsâand neither is the Shadow. Keera is shocked by what she learns and canât help but wonder who her enemy truly is: the King that destroyed her people or the Shadow that threatens the peace.
As she searches for answers, Keera is haunted by a promise she made long ago, one that will test her in every way. To keep her word, Keera must not only save herself but an entire kingdom.
Melissa Blair (she/her/kwe) is an Anishinaabe-kwe of mixed ancestry living in Turtle Island. She splits her time between Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario and the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Canada. She has a graduate degree in applied linguistics and a BookTok account where she discusses her favorite kinds of books including Indigenous and queer fiction, feminist literature, and nonfiction. A Broken Blade is her first novel. TiKTok: @melissas.bookshelf.
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Awardâwinning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a childrenâs adaptation of Shakespeareâs tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.