The Undine’s Tear Media Kit

Tag Line:

One mistake could cost her everything…

Super-Short Description:

Mermaid princess Calandra is the most powerful undine healer in three thousand years—her people's last hope for salvation from an ancient evil that could tear the world apart. But when the truth could start a revolution, will she be able to save her people before she loses her family, her sanity, and the man she loves?

Medium Description:

One mistake could cost her everything…

Princess Calandra would sacrifice anything to save her people—even her sanity, the cost of her great power. Then she learns the only way to prevent a revolution is to enslave the man she loves, and the only way to prevent an apocalypse is to find the brother who shouldn't exist. And she's running out of time before the dragons in her people's dark past destroy them all…

Packed with complex characters, lush world-building, gritty action, and impossible odds, this intricately woven tale presents mermaids like you’ve never seen them before. Join Calandra in a search for redemption that will threaten the very fabric of the universe.

Long description:

Mermaids. Magic. And the mistake that could destroy the world... or cost her everything to save it.

Calandra would do anything to save her people. The powerful princess has been raised to restore the Heartstone that protects their island from humans, then be exiled to the Abyss before she goes Mad and unleashes unfathomable destruction like the healer who sank Atlantis… and her mother. But tradition demands she first enslave a human man with the siren mind-bond, and her queen aunt has selected her childhood friend—the one man she’d risk a death sentence to free.

When Calandra learns her mother wasn't exiled but fled to protect the first undine boy in three millennia, she's certain her brother is the solution to her problems. Until she uncovers the horrifying truth about her people’s past and realizes if she finds him, she could start a revolution—but if she can’t, she’ll unleash an ancient evil that will tear the world apart.

Unless she surrenders everything… even the man she loves. And she’s running out of time.

The Undine's Tear is the first book in the mind-blowing young adult epic historical fantasy series Rise of the Grigori. Packed with complex characters, lush world-building, gritty action, and impossible odds, this intricately woven tale presents mermaids like you’ve never seen them before. Join Calandra in a search for redemption that will threaten the very fabric of the universe.

Buy The Undine's Tear and dive into the adventure today!

Keywords:

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Author Bio (Short):

Talena Winters writes page-turning books, empowering knitting patterns, a blog, and musical theatre, plus edits other people’s work—all while drinking copious amounts of caffeine in all forms. She is addicted to silver linings and wants to be a mermaid when she grows up.

Author Bio (Long):

For more about Talena Winters, please see her author media kit.

Reviews:

Praise for The Undine’s Tear:

“Wow. Just WOW!!”
- Candace Marshall, early reader

“I couldn’t put this book down!”
- Jessica Renwick, author of The Book of Chaos

“You want to read this book. It’s fantastic!”
- Ellen Michelle, editor, owner of Constellate Publishing

“Stunning writing, vivid descriptions, and endearing characters. Puts the epic in fantasy.”
- Liz Konkel, Readers’ Favorite

“Don’t miss this journey into a secret world of magic, family, love and loss.”
- Suzy Vadori, Award Winning Author, The Fountain Series

“A colossal fantasy tale told by an expert storyteller. Spectacular.”
- Ruffina Oserio, Readers’ Favorite

“The action never stopped… a brilliant start to a new series, superbly composed to entertain!”
- Rabia Tanveer, Readers’ Favorite

“Strong setting, unpredictable plot, memorable characters, and a setting that is brilliantly written.”
- Jose Cornelio, Readers’ Favorite

“My favourite book of the past year!”
- Kathy Brown, reader

“Unbelievably captivating!”
- Dawn Gutek, early reader

“Talena Winters has hit it out of the fantasy ballpark.”
- Melodie, Goodreads reviewer

“Packed with action, consequences, and oh-so-much heart.”
- Anne Sengstock, Immersed in Books (full review)

“Well-drawn characters immersed in intricate worlds. A rip-roaring read.”
- Lorehaven Magazine (full review)

Shareable Media:

Book landing page: www.talenawinters.com/undines-tear

Story behind the book: Adventures in Authoring

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Press Release (Also here)

The Undine’s Tear Promises A Thrilling Read For Fans Of Gritty Young Adult Fantasy

May 9, 2019

Canadian author Talena Winters will release her fourth novel on May 14, 2019, a gritty historical epic fantasy take on mermaids, dragons, sphinxes and angels set in the real world at the cusp of the nineteenth century.

The Undine’s Tear, the first of a trilogy, is about a race of merfolk called undines, who have lost the ability to produce their own males. They both fear and need humans, enslaving human men to survive. Calandra, a healer of immense power, must repair the damaged power source for the barrier that hides their island, which is on the verge of complete failure. The only problem is, the most powerful healers of her race have always gone insane and caused immense destruction while the stone continued to deteriorate. Calandra, desperate to find a solution, discovers that there may be a living undine male and begins to question everything she’s been raised to believe.

“As Calandra begins to question her worldview, she sees how her culture’s skewed perspectives on gender and power have led to a self-perpetuating problem,” says Winters.

Winters said she set the story near the end of the Atlantic slave-trading era partly by accident—she has been developing the story for nine years, and while plotting previous iterations (which were originally set much later in the nineteenth century), she kept getting more and more interested in the back story of her characters, each time moving the time period backwards a generation. The Undine’s Tear is the third novel she plotted in this world, but the first one to be worthy of taking to completion.

“As a person of faith, I believe the setting was divinely inspired. The story deals with a lot of issues such as control and love in relationships, and deep cultural biases regarding gender, race and diversity. This story is perfect for the era it is set in, while, at the same time, I hope it speaks to my readers about issues we face today,” says Winters.

The novel, as well as the prequel eBook novella she released in the same world earlier this year, The Waterboy, are Winters’ first forays into the young adult and fantasy genres. Her previous work has been women’s fiction. But the diverse genres are about par for the woman with many talents, whose other credits include musical composition, editing, journalism, and knitwear design.

“This is the story idea that made me want to learn to write fiction. Almost ten years and several other stories later, I’m so excited to see it go out into the world. I hope my readers love it as much as I do,” says Winters.

You can find more information about the book at www.talenawinters.com/undines-tear.

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Author Contact:

Talena Winters

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