HOUSE OF RISING SANDS is an origin story preceding the events of HOUSE OF BEATING WINGS, yet should be read after book 1. For five hundred years, my people and I have been locked on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean because of my mother's cruel magic. Although I dreamed of escaping our prison, I never imagined a day would come when I could. But that day came, and with it, a destiny that bound me to a winged beast of a man. A Crow. My Crow. *Zendaya and Cathal's love story was originally published in the Bookish Box's 2022 Holiday Anthology. It's a 10K word novella.