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Our Kickstarter to fund our release of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence is entering its final 48 hours! We’ve hit our base goal handily, and we’re $70 from our first stretch goal as of when this post is being written. We’d love your help in reaching that stretch goal, and beyond!
Not sure what the buzz is about? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! Read on for some general information, book blurbs, and previews of the first chapter of each book! We’re debuting the Into the Split chapter 1 preview today (it’s here, for those who don’t feel like scrolling)!Welcome to Pine Hills University, where magic changes and danger lurks!
People with Talent—Mages, Dreamwalkers, shapechangers, and others—have always lived among mankind. Their existence was hidden until ten years ago, when the world was abruptly introduced to the existence of these secret magic users after a young gymnast spontaneously teleported during the Olympics. This event heralded the start of the Emergence; whereas, once, Talents were close-kept secrets that ran in family lines, now everyone knew that there were people with incredible abilities in communities all over the world.
The Emergence wrought changes at every level of society.
At Pine Hills University, a small liberal-arts college in Upstate New York, these changes have been pronounced, as the University has taken the lead in studying Talent academically: encouraging Talented students to apply, hiring Talented faculty, and debuting Talent-related curricula, minors, and majors.
This is the milieu against which the events of the Twinned trilogy unfold. Ten years has been just long enough for the young, Talented students of Pine Hills University to think they know where they fit in the world—but there are many changes yet to come…
Book 1: Commit to the Kick
Blurb:
Don’t hesitate.
Don’t overthink it.
Commit to the kick.
In his quest for anger management, Alaric begins to train in taekwondo, and makes new friends in both sports. He finds that he is creating his own small community, where Clan, Mages, other Talents, and even humans come together and build their own found family.
When Alaric receives news that something has happened to his brother Orson, he must return and deal with his Clan and his place in their world. He discovers that old prejudices are still strong between Clan and Mage communities, but that both may be in danger from a creature long thought to be only a legend. Alaric must figure out how to move forward and prevent a war and protect both his home and newly built communities, his found family with him every step of the way.
Book 1 introduces the Welcome to PHU world, an aromantic lead, a growing m/m relationship, a lot of family angst, and a wonderful hoard of diverse, fascinating characters you’ll crave learning more about. Chapter 1 preview!
Book 2: Missed Fortunes
Blurb:
To solve the problem of now…
Remember what lies behind…
Pass through your hopes and fears…
…to the final outcome.
But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Carolyn’s own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She’s seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea’s brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war.
Carolyn shouldn’t get involved—doesn’t want to get involved—but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can’t imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn’t sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.
Book 2 picks up where Commit to the Kick ends and features an asexual lead and her trans twin brother, a f/f queerplatonic relationship, and a huge amount of self-exploration, all while widening our focus from the University to the world beyond. Chapter 1 preview!
Book 3: Into the Split
Watch out.
Don’t fall into the Split.
But Dreams are slippery things: they can attack, and they can trap, and Shadows live in the dark spaces between worlds. Shadows escaped the Dreamscape and came to Nikolai’s world when he was a child. They fed hungrily, drawn to those of strong Talent, killing Nikolai’s family and destroying his home.
Nikolai and Seth have have been on the run ever since.
When the veil between the Dreamscape and his world cracks open again, Nikolai is shocked to meet his doppelganger from another world, Nikita. Claiming that Nikolai’s life has been in her nightmares for months, Nikita promises to save him, but the actions of her and her friends draw the Shadows to them wherever they go. And worse yet, they quickly realize that their worlds are linked: if Nikita cannot save Nikolai, her own world may be lost as well…
Book 3 brings the Twinned trilogy to a delightfully satisfying conclusion and features an established m/m relationship and a lot of other things that we can’t share, because shhhhh, spoilers! Chapter 1 preview!
