We Are the Origin
She was a shadow.
Forced into a life of serving the queendom before she was old enough to deny them, Brandi was a cultivator of death and the queen’s own blade, reserved only for the disloyal and the blasphemous. Crafted by the queendom and forged in blood, she was nothing more than a tool. She was never meant to have an opinion on whose blood she shed — never meant to question whose back she was pressed into or whose throat she was slipped across.
She was destruction.
But when Freya, the goddess of life and judger of souls, demands that she protect rather than destroy, Brandi has no choice but to obey her new orders. And while abandoning the queendom comes with its own set of problems, being hunted by the people she once called family is the least of her worries when the gods reveal to her an enemy who exists beyond the reach of their power. So, with a helpless princess in tow, she begins her search for a way to fight this impossible enemy and save the realm from destruction.
Because she is the wrath of the gods.
And it was foolish for anyone to forget that.
We Are the Origin: Limited Edition
✨ New Cover
✨ New Character Art
✨ "Open Door" Scenes
✨ Preview of Book 2
**Available only from C. M. Lockhart's website**
The Details
What to expect:
🤎New Adult (21+ characters)
🤎Epic Fantasy (original myths and lore)
🤎Assassins being assassins (murder)
🤎All Black characters (unless otherwise stated)
🤎Spice level of bacon 🥓 (no sex on the page)
Genre: Fantasy / Action & Adventure
Target Audience: 17+
Release Date: June 21, 2022
Content Warning: Violence on the page
The Bio
C. M. Lockhart (also known as Chelsea) is a Black writer of fantasy because she loves creating worlds, exploring relationships, and writing stories about Black girls who aren't all that nice. She is the founder of Written in Melanin LLC — which encompasses the Melanin Chat, and a weekly podcast and YouTube channel of the same name — and the Melanin Library, an online database of books written by Black authors.
Follow her @CLockhartWrite on TikTok and Twitter
Interviews
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Indie Bookstores
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