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Call of the Shadow Rift is out in the world!!!!!

Grab your copy here: https://www.lisacassidyauthor.com/shopshadowrift

Available at my store as well as all the usual retailers.

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Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know that Call of the Shadow Rift is now available for pre-order. If you pre-order via my store, you’ll get the book a week earlier, but you can also pre-order at your favourite retailer.

Pre-order here: https://www.lisacassidyauthor.com/shopshadowrift

Morning all, and happy weekend! I’m dropping in today with an exciting blurb reveal. That’s right, Call of the Shadow Rift now has a blurb to go along with a title and series name:

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A throne held together by will. A kingdom tearing itself apart. And a queen running out of time.

Two years have passed since Kaeri Venador won the crown of ahara and the right to rule Montagn—but ruling is proving far more dangerous than she expected.

Montagn is brittle with resentment. Powerful Houses challenge Kaeri’s authority at every turn, old alliances strain, and the hard choices that secured her throne now threaten to tear it apart. Every decision she makes risks unrest, rebellion, or the undoing of everything she fought to change.

When events force Kaeri beyond the protection of her House and crown, power takes on a different meaning. Stripped of certainty, she is forced to rely on a handful of people she does not know and cannot afford to trust—including the enigmatic Nightbird, whose presence raises as many questions as it answers.

And the most dangerous threats might be the ones no one believes in. While Montagn’s attention remains fixed on politics and power, rumours from the rebel port of Avarai go unheeded. Stories of monsters in the night.

But what if they’re not just stories?

I have some exciting news today – a release date for Call of the Shadow Rift, as well as a teaser trailer:

19 June 2026

That’s right, on the seventh anniversary of the release of A Tale of Stars and Shadow, the new series will drop

Check out the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFyijKiRGKQ

Happy weekend everyone! For those of you that haven’t already seen this via my monthly newsletter, I’m dropping in today with an exciting announcement – a title reveal for the first book in my upcoming sequel to A Tale of Stars and Shadow. I’m also dropping the series name:

Call of the Shadow Rift

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I have uploaded my 3 favourite reads of 2025 on Book DNA, along with all the reasons I enjoyed them so much. Like with 2024, I haven’t read a book that has totally blown me away this year, but I did really enjoy these three.

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I’ve started a sneaky new project … a read-along of my books, starting with A Tale of Stars and Shadow. Chapter by chapter, I’ll read through the book, including exclusive author commentary at the end of each chapter. Warning – this will be raw and unfiltered, so you’ll get all my reading mistakes

Check it out on my YouTube channel