Zinnia Sassafrass was born into a poor shepherd family. Her face badly scarred by an accident, the diminutive halfling woman seemed doomed to a hard-scrabble life of abuse and poverty.
Until one day, by chance, she meets Black Ember, a shape-shifting goblin sorceress. Soon, she’s catapulted into a years-long struggle, leading to an undreamed-of destiny. But before becoming a powerful mystical warrior and finding possible love, she must confront the darkness of her own past
ZINNIA SASSAFRASS AND LANTERN’S LIGHT is a fantasy adventure packed with action, romance, heartbreak, and peril! Follow Zinnia as she embarks on a road to become one of the greatest fighters of her world!
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This was a long time in the works, but I finally got it out. I started the first draft back in March. Heck, I first came up with Zinnia back in 2017 for the 'Wolf And Shepherd' short story in THE COLLECTED GOBLIN GIRLS VOLUME 1, which was published in 2018. Then I expanded on her for a character in a D&D campaign which ran for several years. During that time I did a bunch of pin-ups of her and expanded on her back story the whole time. She's had quite a journey from secondary character in an erotica short story to a full-fledged fantasy novel heroine.
I do have some notions for possible sequels, but it all depends how much interest I can get for this first book. Even if this all there is for her story, I'm still happy things got this far at least.
The story takes place in Ximenes, the same fantasy world as The Fantasy Envoy series, The Hot Goblin Girls series, the Moonfire's Busty Curse books, The Virgin Orc's First Kiss, and the Lusty Apprentice. Black Ember from the Hot Goblin Girls series plays a prominent role during part 1, and both Ruckus and Hettie from other stories of mine put in an appearance as well. But since those are erotica stories and this is a mainstream fantasy book, I didn't mention the source of the crossovers in the book itself. But I can mention them here!
The PRINT version should be coming out soon, as well as a more adult erotica version called ZINNIA AFTER DARK, Keep your eyes out for them!
