Clean romantasy. Forbidden love. A kingdom that doesn’t care what the heart wants.
If you’re looking for clean, faith-forward romantasy or a fantasy romance book with real emotional weight — low spice, high stakes, and a slow burn worth waiting for — preorders for What God Has Ordained, Book One of The Legacy of Chandar, are open today! 🥳
What’s Waiting for You Inside
What God Has Ordained is full of tropes you already love. Here are some of them:
- Forbidden love — Coralin and Athos were raised as foster siblings, and that alone complicates everything. But Athos is also the crown prince and heir to the Vin-Nórëan throne, and royal marriages are the province of the kingdom, not of the people who have to live inside them. Coralin was born a baroness — a rank that, to the upholders of tradition, will never be enough of a match for a prince!
- Divine prophecy — In Menelon, the gods have opinions, and clergy on the ground to back them up. That’s a dynamic that is never going to please everyone. This is faith-forward romantasy in its purest form: the divine isn’t a backdrop here, it’s a driving force in the plot itself.
- Class conflict — This isn’t a story where love conveniently erases the gap between a prince and a baroness. The gap is real, it exists for sound reasons, and it costs something to those who seek to close it.
- Slow burn — No insta-love here, my friends. Just two people who’ve known each other their whole lives, circling ’round and ’round a truth neither of them is ready to say out loud.
- An immersive world — The World of Menelon has been built, brick by careful brick, since 1994. It isn’t just a barely-there backdrop for adult content. It’s a place with its own history, faiths, politics, and drama. It’s a place to dream, and to write those dreams into reality.
The Spice May Be Low, But the Stakes Couldn’t be Higher
What God Has Ordained is low/no spice — clean romantasy that trusts longing, tension, and restraint to do the work that explicit content does in other books. If you’ve been looking for a fantasy romance you can recommend to your mother, your book club, or your most easily-scandalized best friend, this is it.
If you’d like to check the writing quality, click here (then scroll down) to read our sample chapter!
Here’s How to Get Yours!
Preorders are open now! Reserve your copy of What God Has Ordained today to get it when it goes live on October 1st — just three weeks away.
And if you’d like to read it even earlier, our ARC program is still open — request an advance copy here. All we request, gently and earnestly, is that if it moved you, you’ll consider leaving us a review on or around Oct. 1 at the Amazon link above.
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