Venom Vow [Paperback]

Two enemy kingdoms are forced to work together to break a curse in this lush YA fantasy, featuring a transgender prince and a bigender dama/assassin in the lead roles.

Keep your enemy closer.

Cade McKenna is a transgender prince whos doubling for his brother.
Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana.
Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect.
Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy.

Cade doesnt know that Gael and Valencia are the same person.
Valencia doesnt know that every time she thinks shes fighting Patrick, shes fighting Cade.
And when Cade and Valencia blame each other for a devastating enchantment that takes both their families, neither of them realizes that they have far more dangerous enemies.

Cowritten by married writing team Anna-Marie and Elliott McLemore,Venom & Vowis a lush and powerful YA novel about owning your power and becoming who you really are - no matter the cost.

Anna-Marie McLemorewas born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and taught by their family to hear la llorona in the Santa Ana winds. They are the author ofThe Weight of Feathers, a finalist for the 2016 William C. Morris Debut Award; 2017 Stonewall Honor BookWhen the Moon Was Ours, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young Peoples Literature and was the winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award;Wild Beauty,Blanca & Roja,Dark and Deepest Red,The Mirror Season,which was longlisted for the National Book Award, andLakelore.

Elliott McLemoreis a nonbinary trans guy who comes from mountains and loves trees. As a child, he romped in dresses, fought with plastic swords, and dreamed up his first stories. Between then and now, he has focused on academic and professional writing, research, and advocacy, including work toward addil“©