An Evening with author Carissa Broadbent with Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Riverstone Books is thrilled to welcome best-selling fantasy author Carissa Broadbent on tour for the lastest book, The Songbird and the Heart of Stone. Joining her in conversation is fellow fantasy best-selling author of the Assistant to the Villain series, Hannah Nicole Maehrer. We are estatic for this pairing and we hope you will come out and join us for a fantastical conversation!! See below for all details regarding the event and please reach out to us if you have any questions.

• Doors will open at 6:30pm, the event will start at 7:00pm.
• Every VIP ticket will include one, hardcover copy of The Songbird and the Heart of Stone and will be available for pick-up at check-in for the event.
• Additional copies will be available for sale at the event, in addition to a limited number of copies of The Serpent and the Wings of Night and The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.
• For those who wish, you will be able to get your book(s) signed and personalized after the event. VIP (1 person & 1 book) tickets will get priority in the signing line. This does not include VIP + 1 (2 people & 1 book).
• Guests are allowed to bring copies of Hannah Nicole Maehrer's books to the event to be signed. We will also have a limited number of copies of Assistant to the Villain and Apprentice to the Villain for sale.
• Your email confirmation will serve as your ticket. You may print it out and bring it or show us the confirmation on your phone at check-in.
• Event tickets are non-refundable within 7 days before the event.
• If you cannot attend the event, we will hold your autographed books at the front counter of Riverstone Squirrel Hill for pick-up. Please give us 24 hours post-event to prepare your books for pick-up or to transfer your book to Riverstone McCandless. If you would still like your book to be personalized, please let us know 24 hours before the event how you would like it enscribed.
• This ticketed event will take place at the Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center (3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15237). The facility has a large parking lot.

About the book:

New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone, where A Court of Thorns and Roses meets Dante’s Inferno, in an epic fantasy romance of love and treachery between mortals and gods. Features beautiful case art and a detailed map.
In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption… or a dark love that defies the gods themselves
Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire – her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her, redemption feels impossible.
But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she’s forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.
Yet, Mische’s punishment may be the key to her salvation. In a secret meeting, her sun god commands her to help Asar in his mission, only to betray him… by killing the very death god she’ll help resurrect.
Mische and Asar must travel the treacherous path to the underworld, facing trials, beasts, and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts. Yet, most dangerous of all is the alluring call of the darkness – and her forbidden attraction to Asar, a burgeoning bond that risks invoking the wrath of gods.
As her betrayal looms, the underworld closes in and angry gods are growing restless. Mische will be forced to choose between the redemption of the sun or the damnation of the darkness.

About the Carissa Broadbent:

I’ve been freaking out teachers and parents with mercilessly grim tales since I was roughly nine years old. Since then, my stories have gotten (slightly) less depressing and (hopefully a lot?) more readable. Today, I write fantasy novels with a heaping dose of badass ladies and a big pinch of romance. My books include the Crowns of Nyaxia series, the War of Lost Hearts series, and hopefully many more to come!

I live with my husband, one very well behaved rabbit, one very poorly behaved rabbit, and one perpetually skeptical cat in the extremely underrated state of Rhode Island.

You can find me around the internet on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

About Hannah Nicole Maehrer:

Hannah Nicole Maehrer—or as TikTok Knows her, @hannahnicolemae—is a fantasy romance author and BookToker with a propensity for villains. When she’s not creating bookish comedy skits about Villains and Assistants, she’s writing to Taylor Swift songs. Her biggest passions in life include romance, magic, laughter, and finding ways to include them all in everything she creates. Most days you can find her with her head in the clouds and a pen in her hand.

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