Albatrossed: A Romance in Thirty-Two Sonnets and a Chant Royal

My name was Lorelei, a student mage,

And long ago, I overthrew an age.

In the city of Delphin, Lorelei, a cobbler's daughter, and Alonzo, a grocer's son, fly side by side on wings of magic, until Alonzo turns his forbidden power against everything they swore to protect. Stopping him will cost Lorelei her friend, her human form, and her freedom: half woman, half spider, she is sentenced to the one verdict no mage can appeal-Albatrossed. Centuries later, the alarms wake Warden Donal, who was t...