AURELIA, former crown princess of Tyralt, has cobbled together a new life in exile with ROBERT, the young countryman who loves her. In the Outer Realms, they have found safety, but their homeland has not. Tyralt is under attack. When a friend from the past arrives to persuade Aurelia to rescue her country, she and Robert must weigh the hopes of a kingdom against their own failures, nightmares, and self-doubt. Because both Aurelia and Robert know that if they make the wrong choice, with the freedom of an entire nation at stake, they may not find redemption.
Redemption: An Early-Morning Character
Interview
(by Anne Osterlund
AKA the author)
“Come on,
Aurelia. It’s time to go to Live to Read!” I call to the heroine of my first complete series.
She is hovering at the top of the stairs. She has actually
been dressed and ready for the first stop of our blog tour—in honor of REDEMPTION, the third & final novel
of the Aurelia Trilogy—since about 4:00 a.m. Aurelia is the only participant in the tour
who is a morning person.
Though if you ask her, she will probably tell you she has
been prepared for her own personal blog tour her entire life.
“I’ve been ready,”
she says. “Robert is the one who is dawdling.”
Robert is more nervous. He isn’t as used to the public
spotlight. Four years on the frontier will do that to you. Though you would
think he would have adjusted by now, seeing as how this is his third novel
alongside a young woman raised as a crown princess. It takes as much backbone
for him to stand up to Aurelia as it does for her to stand up to an assassin. Truly,
I think both my hero and heroine have a lot of guts. Though their dynamic can
be a challenge on a daily basis.
I glance down the stairs. He is tying his boots.
New boots. He really needed them. We all did. After our trek
across the desert, over the frontier, climbing the treacherous Gate,
negotiating the forest, and trying to survive the many battles within Redemption.
“We’re going to be late,” Aurelia warns.
You would think she might have become more patient after so
much time around Robert. But some things don’t change.
Others clearly do.
She descends the stairs and takes his hand, a sign that she
is aware he isn’t just dawdling.
Up the stairway they come. “So what shall we say?” Aurelia
asks as we head out the door. “What shall we tell Krystal at Live to Read?”
“She asked for a character interview,” I answer. “What would
you like to tell her about Redemption?”
Aurelia gnaws her lip. A rarity. To see her struggle to
speak. She always has an opinion. But
it’s a sign of how much this final book means to her. To us. Three years we
spent writing this novel. Every line has come out. Only the vital ones went
back in. And there were times—many—when we thought perhaps we would never reach
the end of this journey.
It’s been such an amazing, wonderful ride. Heart-breaking.
Dream-making. Everything.
We don’t regret it. Any of us.
“That,” Aurelia says.
(The thing about being a character in someone’s head is that you can
also read the author’s mind). “I just want our readers to know it’s the story
we all hoped it would be from the very beginning.”
She’s nervous. We all are. We don’t know—any of us—if it’s
the story our readers have imagined.
Probably not. Probably some of it unfolds completely differently. And one day
some of our readers will write their own stories to correct that grave
injustice.
But for Aurelia, Robert, and I it is . . .
“Everything,” we
all say at once.
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