An Archer’s Awakening — Of Crowns & Quills · Read it your way

He’s supposed to hate him.
So why can’t he look away?

For fans of Captive Prince, Fourth Wing, and The Witcher

An Archer's Awakening by Casey Morales

“The MM romance is great. Need more of THAT in fantasy too.”

— Critical Care Doc, Amazon reader
★★★★★Over 1,000 Amazon ratings

Global Book Awards gold medalThe BookFest gold medalTwo gold medals · Global Book Awards & The BookFest

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He came to the Academy to disappear. Ayden won’t let him.

Declan Rea was born without magic in a kingdom that worships it. The gifted wear golden collars, and his bare neck tells everyone exactly what he lacks.

He left for the Ranger Academy hoping it wouldn’t matter there, and that he could prove himself without it.

Then he met Ayden Byrne.

Ayden is everything Declan isn’t: rich, gifted, and a lord’s son. One look, and Declan is sure he knows exactly what Ayden thinks of him.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

When a cult stirs in the dark and the two of them are sent down the same road, there is no one else to trust, nowhere to hide, and nothing between them but a heat neither of them can name.

Their story begins in An Archer’s Awakening.
It spans four novels and two novellas, and it’s 100% complete.

You don’t have to wait to see how everything comes together. Book one is the longing. Declan and Ayden spend it circling each other, and by the last page they’ve finally admitted what’s between them. The next three novels take them the rest of the way, which is why so many readers end up with the whole set.

An Archer's Awakening
An Archer's Destiny
An Archer's Reckoning
An Archer's Redemption

What readers say

★★★★★

“The MM romance is great. Need more of THAT in fantasy too.”

Critical Care Doc
★★★★★

“Declan’s perplexity at his attraction and burgeoning love for Ayden is sweet.”

Lee Armstrong
★★★★★

“It truly made me fall in love with fantasy again.”

debinsuqaumish
★★★★★

“This is a very slow burn. By the end you will find yourself thoroughly engrossed.”

Ana
★★★★★

“A cliffhanger ending, which makes you want to start book two straight away.”

David Calder, Australia
★★★★★

“This is the first time I’ve read romantic fantasy, and I loved it.”

Verified reader

It’s a love story first, and the world is big enough to get lost in.

Declan came to the Ranger Academy to disappear. He got Ayden Byrne instead, a rich lord’s son he was certain despised him, and who kept turning up wherever Declan happened to be.

An ancient cult is working to raise a queen who has been dead a thousand years. Women with psychic gifts are vanishing. Declan and Ayden are sent to find out why, down a road where trust is scarce and the only person Declan can rely on is the one he swore he hated.

An Archer’s Awakening is epic fantasy with a romance at its spine, told in Declan’s voice. The world is wide and other people get chapters, but you’re never far from him, and you’re never far from Ayden.

Hi, Casey Morales here…

Author of 48 novels, including multiple bestsellers.

I wrote this one for readers who want the romance and the adventure, and who don’t want either one to be a costume. Of Crowns & Quills has won two gold medals, one from the Global Book Awards and one from The BookFest, and An Archer’s Awakening alone has more than 1,000 Amazon ratings.

If you like enemies to lovers, slow burns that actually burn, found family, and a hero who has to earn every single thing he gets, this is the one.

Casey

Casey signing a paperback
I sign every one of these myself.

Before you decide

Do Declan and Ayden end up together?

Yes, and it’s worth the wait. By the last page of book one they’ve admitted what’s between them. The rest of their story takes another three novels, and they get their ending.

Does book one end on a cliffhanger?

It does. Each book carries you straight into the next, and most readers tell me they wish they’d ordered the set to begin with. If you already know you’ll want book two, the four-book set above is the cheaper way to get there, and it ships free.

How spicy is it?

Book one is the longing. Declan spends it working out what he feels and whether Ayden feels it too, and the heat arrives later in the series as the relationship does. Across all four novels it’s about two peppers, and the focus stays on the two of them rather than the bedroom.

Is this a romance or a fantasy?

Both, and I won’t pretend otherwise. This is epic fantasy with a love story at its center. Declan narrates the spine of the book, and other characters get chapters because the world is large. You’re never lost for long, and you don’t need to keep a map in your head to enjoy it.

Who narrates the audiobook?

Peter Kenny and Carmen Rose perform it as a duet, produced by Podium Audio. Peter Kenny also narrated The Witcher series. All four novels are available in audio.

What about the two novellas?

Brothers of the Guild and A Healer’s Wrath fill in the backstory. You don’t need them to follow the novels, and I’d read them after books one and two rather than before. If you want everything, the complete six-book signed set is on my store.

How much is shipping?

The four-book set ships free, as does any order over $25. A single copy of An Archer’s Awakening ships for a flat $4.99 anywhere in the US, and most orders arrive within three to five days.

Do you ship internationally?

I don’t at the moment, I’m afraid. Signed paperbacks ship within the US only. Outside the US, the ebooks and audiobooks are available everywhere.

Start with book one.

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Two prequel novellas fill in the corners: how Declan and his brother came to the Mages’ Guild, and how a healer became the queen everyone fears a thousand years later.

Brothers of the Guild
A Healer's Wrath
Book one is the longing.
The rest is what they do about it.

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