I would be shocked if you follow me and you haven’t heard of Natalia Hernandez. I would also be shocked if you have never heard of her debut series, The Flowers of Prophecy. And for good reason. I have been in love with this series since before the first book, The Name-bearer, launched in 2023. Which is why I am thrilled to be able to partner with Natalia to give two lucky people copies of the first three books in the series, along with a copy of her cozy romantacy, Asiri and the Amaru.

The Flowers of Prophecy Series follows a young woman who was taken from her home as an infant and stripped of everything in her life—her family, her heritage, even her own name—and raised in the castle with one intended goal: to one day go to the mystical flowers of prophesy and bring back the name of the King’s first born child. But when that day finally comes and she is sent to the flowers of prophecy in the wake of the Queen’s delivery, the flowers do not give her a name for the baby. Instead, they warn her that the Queen’s son will not, in fact, be the next King and that there is actually another boy she must find if she wants to stop the war that has been raging throughout the continent and save her people from promised destruction.

In The Name-Bearer, we watch as the name-bearer must flee the castle to avoid the wrath of the Queen. To survive, the court’s greatest wizard helps her escape to an elite sect of warrior women, where she is raised and trained to be a warrior while she waits for him to come for her. We watch her grow, learn to fight, and more importantly, learn to belong. She has spent her entire life in obscurity, not even allowed to have a name. And now she must find a way to pretend to have a sense of agency and personhood that she has never even dreamed of being allowed, all while lying to the people she is learning to love about who she really is.

The second book, The Follower of Flowers, follows her after one of the wizard’s apprentices finally comes for her. Together, they begin the very long journey of searching for the promised prince, though they have next to no idea on where to begin that search. Throughout this book, they travel the kingdom in search of him, only to encounter shocking threats, unexpected allies and a host of circumstances they have no frame of reference for.

The third installment, Daughter of Danray, picks up right as the world is beginning to fall apart around the Name-bearer and her allies. They have identified two major threats that they honestly have no idea if they are capable of facing and their journey has to shift from just delivering the promised prince to the flowers of prophecy to actually rallying the kingdom to defend itself from outside forces. If they are ever going to accomplish their task and save the kingdom, first they are going to have to face an unbeatable enemy, a loss of hope and a growing threat to the world as they know it. And more importantly, they are going to have to do it together.

And as a bonus, Natlia has also graciously offered a copy of her Cozy Romantacy, Asiri and the Amaru, which follows a woman who has been gifted with the power to talk to animals. When she grows tired of her father exploiting her gifts to his own advantage, she leaves home, determined to never tell anyone about her gift...until she runs into a veterinarian who needs her help to save a mythical amaru.

When I tell you that this is a next level series, I mean that. I have been in love with this series since the moment the first ARC touched my fingers and I cannot wait to share it with all of you! But especially with our two eventual winners!

Here is what you need to know:

• To be eligible for this giveaway, you must be subscribed to this Bindery community. (All Bindery tiers are eligible, whether FREE or paid)
• To enter, drop a Latine or Indigenous book recommendation in the comments.
• I will be drawing both winners randomly from the comments next Friday the 17th. Natalia will be sending those directly to our winner, so be on the lookout from an email from one of us if you win!

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