Cover Reveal!
Cover Reveal!
Cover Reveal!
Cover Reveal!
Cover Reveal!
Cover Reveal!
In the depths of the Endless Gate, anyone can borrow the powers of a god—if they are willing to pay the price.
Common-born Rahelu can’t afford principles: she had to sell her loyalty to the highest bidder in the Dominion to save her destitute family. Now she must work with her scheming House-born peers and her most detested rival to carry out her secretive Elder’s dubious orders: steal an artifact that can supposedly turn any desire into reality before the Dominion’s enemies can do the same.
But when control of the future itself is the prize, temptation beckons. Even Rahelu, who has never dreamed of anything more than a debt-free life of simple comforts, is swayed. No blood feud is too old to set aside; no alliance is too unsavory and no method too ruthless to contemplate.
House politics and hidden motives soon set Rahelu and her teammates at each others’ throats, as foreign operatives and treasure-seeking pirates pursue them across deadly seas, past the edge of the known world. All are oblivious to the dying cult manipulating fate from the shadows…and the ancient power stirring inside the Endless Gate.
Torn between her own desires and new loyalties, guilt-wracked by the blood accumulating on her hands, Rahelu’s oaths force her to a devastating choice: who else is she willing to sacrifice in the name of success?
Genre: Epic fantasy
Book 2 in the Resonance Crystal Legacy series
~235,000 words. (Approximately 900 pages in 5″ x 8″ paperback or 786 pages in 6″ x 9″ hardcover.)
Launching on Kickstarter in late 2024, prior to general retail release.
Published by Paper Tiger Productions
Cover design by Damonza.
No AI has been used in the cover. The design was completed prior to the introduction of generative AI tools. The girl and the boat are Daz3D render 3D models and all the other images are licensed from Shutterstock
As this will be launching on Kickstarter, no ARCs will be available until the Kickstarter is completed. The first ~4 chapters or so will be available as a public preview once the Kickstarter project launches.
However, readers who want a longer sneak peek at the book can get the first third of Supplicant (~83,000 words, or about ~300 pages in 5×8 paperback) by signing up for my newsletter: https://www.delilahwaan.com/sneakpeeks/
The sneak peek is a standalone arc within the larger story and will go out via my newsletter at the end of September, once line edits and proofreading have been completed for that part of the book.
Supplicant is a work of fiction intended for an adult audience. Reader discretion is advised.
General content warnings include: Abuse, animal death, blood/gore, bodies/corpses, classism, death, grief, mature language, mental intrusion/emotional assault, possession, self-harm, sex and sexual themes (including coerced/dubious consent and sexual assault), slavery, ritual sacrifice, excrement, vomiting, violence.
Detailed content warnings by chapter with intensity ratings can be found at: https://www.delilahwaan.com/books/supplicant/#content
Delilah Waan is a literal bookworm who alphabetically devours her way through the shelves at her local library.
Her preferred diet is fantasy epics—full of complex intrigue, morally ambiguous characters and tragic ends—though she does enjoy the occasional quippy, fast-paced action adventure. (Sappy romances, however, give her indigestion.)
When she’s not binge-reading the next doorstopper on her TBR or engaging in frantic theory crafting in between Brandon Sanderson and Will Wight book releases, she likes to spit bars in her best Angelica Schuyler impression and walk her cat.
