Now Available from FairyDancer Press:

THE ELEMENTIST is an epic, hopeful fantasy romance with a fresh mythology, a neurodivergent heroine on a quest that asks too much, an awkward love interest you never thought you’d root for, found family with Fae roots, identity, redemption, earth-breaking power, plus a non-toxic love triangle you didn’t know you needed…all held in a deeply crafted, welcoming world where ancient magic sings through the landscape, and somehow feels like home. 

In keeping with the ethos of the story, THE ELEMENTIST e-book is available to readers weary of the news, without a price barrier. #BeTheChange…’Tis gifted! Get YOUR FREE E-BOOK COPY HERE, through Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, and more.

Or LISTEN FREE, read aloud by the author: START WITH THE PRELUDE AND CHAPTER 1 HERE, with more chapters following on LadyQuinn’s Gather House. Full list of audio chapters linked at the bottom of the page.

What is it like, to hear the song of all that is? To feel it, in your body?  
What is it like to not know who you are, but to love the world so deeply, it loves you back? 
What is it like to discover yourself in innocence? To discover love? 
What is it like to discover your full power…and then learn what it will cost you?

Found in a forest above the moors, Caedris doesn’t know who she is, or what the gem-like mark on her arm means. She only knows there is something she must find. 

Presumed taken and returned by Faelights, the last vestiges of the Fae who once brought abundance, she’s lost in the songs of the world around her, longing to stay in their embrace. But something haunts her, and it won’t leave her alone–until a vision at a stone circle sets her on a quest to reach a broken relic somehow linked to the disappearance of the Fae.

All with such visions go mad. Within a year.

Only, Caedris can heal the relic, returning the Fae, and prosperity, if she discovers her past, and masters the power of her mark, in time. But leaving the kindly folk who found her to seek answers with a scorned Lorekeeper reveals secrets she never could have guessed about herself, her Elemental power, and an ancestral legacy only she can answer for.

Winner of the Literary Titan Silver Award.

“…[for] readers who enjoy immersive secondary-world fantasy, especially fantasy that leans lyrical, spiritual, and emotionally earnest rather than fast and sharp-edged. [It] does not rush to explain itself…but gives back atmosphere, sincerity, and a real sense of wonder.” Literary Titan Review (full)

With an important role for persons with disability, a collaborative culture you’d actually want to live in, and positive masculinity where the strongest are also the most gentle, THE ELEMENTIST is a nervous-system-friendly tale for fans of Ursula LeGuin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, and for slow-burn, lyrical romantacy readers who wanted more of A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross.

* Title: THE ELEMENTIST
* Author: Quinn Columba Boyko
* ISBN: 9781067867003
* Publisher: FAIRYDANCER PRESS
* Publication Date Year: 2026
* Publication Date Month: June
* Publication Date Day: 29
* Page count: approx 500
* Format: e-book

Coming Soon:

GIFT OF THE ANCIENTS, a YA fantasy/science fiction crossover following the unlikely friendship of Adero, a fiery young woman struggling to find her place, and Ilisa, one of the mysterious Thalassar (waterpeople), as they journey to protect their territories from invasion, using technology discovered in an ancient library. But what defines a true enemy? And what if one you’re trying to destroy becomes a friend…or more?

More from the world of THE ELEMENTIST is also forthcoming.

Every read-aloud chapter of THE ELEMENTIST, in order

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