Elara Kincaid
Fallen Hearts
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Fallen Hearts

The Fallen Hearts series — political intrigue, forbidden romance, and brutal survival as Princess Aria fights for her throne.

19 posts
Behind the Scenes

Writer's Commentary: Why I Wrote Fallen Hearts

I started Fallen Hearts in a bad winter. The honest answer to what the series is actually about — the question I have been afraid of in my own life, why the kingdom ends in democracy, and why the slow burn was a discipline rather than a choice.

Elara Kincaid Elara Kincaid
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Behind the Scenes

Deleted Scene: The Letter Aria Never Sent

There is a letter that exists in two of my drafting folders and nowhere else in the world. Cut from the close of Iron and Flame. Aria, age forty-one, writing to her cousin in the monastery on the twelfth night after treaty — asking, in writing, for permission to be tired.

Elara Kincaid Elara Kincaid
7 min read
Behind the Scenes

Character Dossier: Darius Blackwood, Called The Raven

I get more letters about Darius than any other character. Where does the mask come from. Did he and Aria really love each other. The dossier I keep at the back of my drafting folder — the one with his birth name, the West Wing, and the manuscript he wrote his children.

Elara Kincaid Elara Kincaid
7 min read
Short Story

A Debt of Salt

A Fallen Hearts short story. Early in Queen Aria's reign, spymaster Lyra Ashwind rides north to collect a missing grain tithe and walks into a count's dinner where the poison is already in the wine—and the poisoner is nobody she expected.

Elara Kincaid Elara Kincaid
15 min read
Fallen Hearts

The Usurper — Fallen Hearts

Meet The Usurper, a dangerous character in Elara Kincaid's Fallen Hearts series. Ambition drives treachery and power. Read the full character profile on elarakincaid.com.

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