I finally finished my book cover—after what felt like an eternity of second‑guessing myself. I kept bouncing between styles, colors, and moods, trying to find the one that truly matched the heart of the story. Every time I thought I’d settled on something, I’d wake up the next morning convinced it wasn’t quite right. But I pushed through the indecision, trusted my instincts, and the final design feels like me and like the book I’ve written.
And early this morning, after just as much wrestling, I finished the back cover blurb. That was its own challenge—trying to distill the entire emotional arc into a few paragraphs without giving too much away. But it finally clicked, and I’m proud of where it landed.
Back cover blurb.
The Shadow Accord
Alexandra was never meant to survive. Raised inside a secret facility and engineered into something between human and weapon, she has spent her life obeying the architect’s commands, enduring the cycles and forgetting the memories he burned out of her. But when a forbidden shard awakens a voice she hasn’t heard since childhood, Alexandra breaks free—and the world she steps into is nothing like the one she remembers.
With Julian, the boy who refuses to leave behind, and two prototypes learning what it means to choose, Alexandra flees the collapsing empire that created her. But freedom is not quiet. The shard pulses with a signal she cannot ignore—a cry that echoes from a past the architect tried to erase.
Someone out there remembers her.
Someone out there is calling her back.
And the truth waiting for her in the shadows is far more dangerous than the prison she escaped.
Survival was never the end.
It was only the beginning.
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The Northern Witness 