SHADOWSCENT

In the empire of Aramtesh, scent has power. Set your own senses on fire in this simmering debut.

When disaster strikes and the crown prince lies poisoned, long-suppressed rivalries threaten to blow the empire apart. It's up to Rakel, a poor village girl with a talent for fragrances, and Ash, the prince's loyal bodyguard, to find an antidote. To succeed, the pair must uncover secrets— cryptic, ancient tales as well as buried truths from their own pasts—in an adventure that will set your senses on fire.

P. M. Freestone spent her formative years in Australia and has since worked or studied on every continent except Antarctica (there's still time). Along the way, she collected a motley crew of university degrees, qualifying as an archaeologist and a doctor of something philosophical in the mix.

Unabashedly nerdy since childhood, she's intrigued with all things speculative. A graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, her short stories have appeared in various print and online venues. In 2016, she was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and in 2018 she was named one of the SCBWI's UK and Europe Undiscovered Voices.

She resides in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her Irish partner, a Romanian street dog who identifies as direwolf-corgi, and a menagerie of NASA-approved houseplants.