I love it when authors do something fun with their covers, like making the artwork line up with previous books in the series. Nerezia, the novella series written by Claudie Arseneault is such a series. If you put all the covers next to each other, they all connect.
Today, I have the cover of the fifth book, Motes of Inspiration, for you. Rumi, one of the adventurers, is seen walking into a dark corridor, waving towards his wagon. The simple gesture is already tugging at heartstrings, even without reading the blurb.
If you want a cozy adventure story with a focus on found family and friendships, you’ll love all the Nerezia novellas, starting with Awakening. You can pre-order Motes of Inspiration now and pick the all the previous books in the series.
Motes of Inspiration
Cover art and Designer: Eva I.
Release date: 9 April 2025
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Blurb
Fate and friendship brought Horace, Rumi, Keza, and Aliyah together in Rumi’s sentient self-propelling wagon. They seek the forest haunting Aliyah’s dream, hoping for answers about the elf’s past and unique abilities—but first, they need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers and react to Aliyah’s presence.
They’ve reached Virze, a marvel of art and engineering and a city in which all acts of creation are beloved. A perfect occasion to explore and rest before the next leg of their journey… except that Rumi desperately wants to avoid his hometown and the demons of his past.
When the Wagon crew realises half of those might be fears of his own making, however, they refuse to leave. But between the curse that ran him out of town and the source of his engineering skills, Rumi has been keeping even more secrets than they’d expected. He’ll need all their support to face the loved ones left behind and prove to all, himself first and foremost, what he is truly capable of.
