Margaret Collins
Writing history, fantasy, and romance - all at once
My dearest hope is that one day one person will read one thing I’ve written and see the world in a slightly different way because of it. Maybe fall a bit more in love with it. Maybe see just an iota more clearly what humanity can be, rather than what we’ve been told it is.
I’ve written several books in a variety of genres but there’s only one, so far, that I’ve brought to the point of distribution. I am so proud and happy to present An Endless River. It’s the first book in an historical fantasy trilogy, The Nature of Magic. Do you like rad lady scientists? Gargoyle fens? Slow burn romance between main characters who have a passing degree of emotional maturity? Magic societies hidden in plain sight? Gilded Age New England?
Well then, do I have the book for you.
AN ENDLESS RIVER
The Nature of Magic: I
Boston, 1895. When magic manifests through Grace, it destroys her scientific career and draws a lethal harpy to her family home. Grace knows almost nothing about the power awakening inside her—and even less about the hidden society that governs it.
Then Konstantin Navarre appears. A fallen Praetorian carrying a dragon beneath his skin, Konstantin sees Grace as a chance to regain the rank and reputation the Imperium took from him. But first, he offers her a choice: she can form a bond with him, or face the creature hunting her alone. Grace chooses the bond.
Now their fates are connected, and she can feel the danger, desire, and conflict Konstantin tries to hide. As he brings her toward the Imperium, Grace begins to learn the rules of a world she never knew existed.
But her magic refuses to obey, and the Imperium suspects she may be a river mage—a supposedly extinct kind of mage considered too dangerous to survive.
With powerful families watching and Konstantin’s future depending on her case, Grace must decide how much of herself she is willing to hide.
Because if the Imperium discovers what she is, it will destroy her.
