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Desert Flower Release Day!

 Happy Tuesday! 


Today is Desert Flower's release day! I can hardly believe it. I wrote this book last year after almost all of 2021 being full of half finished projects and lots of burnout. After working hard all year to try and write more and being so frustrated and worried I may never write another good thing again, Desert Flower was a happy surprise and has opened up a new world of stories for me. Thanks to Desert Flower, I know have many stories for the future set in the Triadic Kingdoms. I have Project Xion and my new IWWP WIP and a few other standalone novels set in the same world that are just ideas for right now. 

More than any of my other books, this one holds the most of my heart and a lot of my story. For years, I've wanted to write a story like Desert Flower, about the themes that are in the book... but I could never find the right words. It was never the right time. I'm not sure why or how it became the right time last year... but the idea struck me and here we are now. Its the most vulnerable book I've ever written and one that I was so worried to share with the rest of the world. I've been so afraid no one was going to be able to relate or enjoy the story at all. This story is about infertility. A topic that isn't talked about enough or at all in the young adult genre. But I thought it was an important one to cover. You'd be surprised at how many young women who aren't even married or planning to have kids yet struggle with conditions that can cause infertility and the emotional pain that goes along with that. I'm so thankful for all the encouragement and support and excitement this book has gotten from so many and I hope that everyone who reads it will enjoy it and that it will touch the hearts of others the way it touched mine. I wrote Desert Flower for my sixteen year old self. Maybe if I had had Rayla's story, things wouldn't have felt so horrible or impossible. I hope that Desert Flower will be that for others. That Rayla's story will give them some encouragement and hope during hard times. 

I hope you all enjoy it, and again, I'm so thankful for all the support and excitement about Desert Flower from so many! 

Blurb for Desert Flower: 

All Rayla’s life, she’s always thought she was normal. She had a plan for her life. Grow up, get married, and start a family of her own. Step into her place in society just like every other girl in her small oasis village. But after it’s revealed in her coming of age ceremony that she is unable to have children, and therefore, unable to continue her family line, Rayla believes she’s been cursed by the gods.

She runs away into the desert to escape being ostracized by her village and shaming her family any more than she already has. But after a near-fatal encounter with some dust dogs, Rayla is rescued by a handsome desert pirate, his twin sister, and their guardian who are willing to help her journey across the desert to get to the City of a Thousand Lights where Rayla plans to start a new life for herself.

Along the way, as they encounter raiders and ghouls, and ghostly dragons, Rayla has to try to accept the truth of what she was told during her coming of age ceremony and discover what she is truly capable of.

Enjoy this standalone set in the Triadic Kingdoms world full of found family, healing, infertility, and sweet romance.

Get your copy of Desert Flower as paperback, ebook or on Kindle Unlimited here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VLN45Z5

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  1. Alexa MintahMarch 30, 2022 at 5:58 PM

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And that cover though, it's beautiful!!!

    That's such a surprising topic, but also, so important! I know of teens who have experienced conditions related to infertility, long before they have any interest in being pregnant. And it is such an odd topic to talk about, especially in that time of your life, but it's so necessary to verbalize and normalize these sorts of struggles. I'm so glad you did! Congratulations again. This looks like a great story!


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    1. Melody_AuthorApril 9, 2022 at 10:47 AM

      Thank you! <3

      Yeah, I'm really glad to get to share a story about a topic that doesn't get talked about often but that I think needs to be given space to be heard. :)

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