The Chosen and the Cursed

By Erik L Seabury

A kindhearted royal bastard marked by prophecy hires the cursed leader of the Raven Sellswords for protection, only to discover that saving the world may require killing the man she is destined to love.

Dyana Seldor has spent her life hiding from grief, anger, and the bloodline that could destroy her. A bastard daughter of a hateful king, she survives by locking every unbearable feeling into tiny bottles and pretending the weight at her hip is not slowly dragging her under. Then visions begin: a burning world, nine dying gods, and a cursed warrior whose death may be the price of salvation.
Hylf Alansen, famed sellsword and leader of the Ravens, has no patience for prophecy. Marked by a witch's curse and convinced he deserves nothing gentle, he lives by contracts, steel, and loyalty to the rough company he calls family. When Dyana hires the Ravens to protect her from the king's assassins, contempt sparks before trust, and trust becomes something far more dangerous beneath the shadow of an ancient doom.
Across fossil tundras, poison fog, mountain villages, and sacred lands where the old gods still whisper, Dyana and the Ravens are hunted by monsters, soldiers, Soul Reavers, and a witch whose cruelty blooms like rot. Every mercy costs blood. Every victory opens a deeper wound. And as Dyana's power awakens and Hylf's curse worsens, the truth becomes impossible to deny.
The Chosen must kill the Cursed, or the world ends in shadow

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H5SFQDSY
• ISBN13: 9798182017992
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"