The Changeling's Fortune

K.C. Lannon · M.C. Aquila

May 2018 · Winter's Blight Book 1 · M.C. Aquila & K.C. Lannon

About this ebook

When her destructive faery magic is unlocked, Deirdre fights for control of her power and for her life.

Seventeen-year-old orphan Deirdre moves to Neo-London, a city created after an attack by Unseelie faeries, and becomes caught in the tension between the city faeries and the human military. Deirdre develops uncontrollable magical abilities after having her fortune told—making her the target of Alan Callaghan, an extreme anti-faery general. His sons, Iain and James, cross paths with Deirdre and are pushed towards the opposite sides of the conflict between humans and Fae. Iain is a rookie soldier in the Iron Guard trying to atone for past mistakes and keep his family together. James is a fourteen-year-old aspiring scholar fascinated by faeries and eager to leave his life in the city behind.

As Alan conspires to control the city, Deirdre and James plot to leave, seeking answers about her magic and James’s disappeared mother. However, when Deirdre is framed for a treasonous crime, their quest for answers becomes a desperate quest for freedom. The Changeling’s Fortune is the first installment in a seven-book series.

Ratings and reviews

a little full on at the beginning but once the author and myself settled into the story I couldn't put it down! left me itching to know what was going to happen next in wishing I had the next book in the series!

Simple writing. Easy read of conflict between Fae and human.

difficult to understand the emphasis of the plot

About the author

K.C. Lannon graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, where she primarily studied short stories, but always aspired to write YA novels. Although she grew up moving all over the U.S., she currently resides in South Carolina. When she realized she probably would never find a fantasy adventure in the real world (though she’s still looking), K.C. Lannon decided to do the next best thing: write her own.

When she is not co-writing the Winter’s Blight book series, she tutors English, walks dogs, and dabbles art. She enjoys cooking vegetarian meals and playing tabletop RPGs.

M. C. Aquila is a Catholic and a born and bred nerd who graduated from Winthrop University with a BA in English. She grew up in Pittsburgh, PA but currently resides in South Carolina. When she is not co-writing the Winter’s Blight series, she tutors both native and ESL students in English, giving her a renewed love for the strange wonderfulness of the language. She also enjoys drawing daily, baking recklessly, hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, searching for the best red wine in existence, and reading any story with a villain she loves to hate.