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C.F. Abbott

Every enchanting fairytale casts a shadow.

Dark RomantasyContemporary romantasy

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About the author

Well hello there, beautiful reader, and welcome to my bio. My name is C.F. Abbott. I am a twenty-something-year-old author with a lifelong love of the magical and macabre. The genres I dabble in are romantasy, historical fantasy, and contemporary fantasy... though folklore, fairytales, and Greek mythology have a habit of sneaking into everything I write. Like a cook with salt, I believe every good romance deserves a dash of magic and a pinch of something spooky.

Somewhere in the sleepy foothills of Appalachia

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Forever shelf

Favorite books

  • The Silence of the Girls
  • Jane Eyre
  • Grimm's Complete Fairytales
  • The Odyssey
  • A Song of Ice and Fire
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In the headphones

Writing soundtrack

  • Vitamin String Quartet
  • Florence & the Machine
  • Hoizer
  • Lana Del Rey
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Tiny author lore

Things to know

  • Prefers cats to people
  • Loves Beauty and the Beast
  • Has a not-so-secret rock collection
  • Chiroptophobic despite writing about things considerably scarier than bats

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A Kingdom of Ash and Bone by C.F. Abbott

Dark Romantasy

A Kingdom of Ash and Bone

Camelot is burning the old world to ash. Once a princess of Oléron, Tryamour Ní Oléron has watched human conquest reduce her homeland to ruin, leaving her family dead and her people scattered. Now a healer for the Resistance, she has little left but her hatred for Camelot and a willingness to do whatever it takes to see the kingdom fall. Even if it means walking willingly into the heart of it. Disguised as a servant within Castle Pendragon, Tryamour intends to poison the court and disappear before anyone discovers what she is. Instead, she crosses paths with Lanval, a peasant born knight whose loyalty to Camelot has earned him everything he once dreamed of, and whose growing doubts threaten to cost him all of it. He should be her enemy. She should be nothing more than a traitor. But when bloodshed forces them together, hatred gives way to something far more dangerous: an ancient bond neither of them can easily escape.

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