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Athena Ryals is the award-winning, Illinois-based author of the Honor Bound series. Their short fiction and poetry have been featured in Erato, Z Publishing's Colorado's Emerging Writers and America's Emerging Poets, and Colorado School of Mines' High Grade.

Honor Bound: Book 1 is the winner of the Wishing Shelf's Red Ribbon Award and is a 5-star Reader's Favorite Awards book. It is also a Finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Honor Bound: Book 2 is the Silver Medalist for the LGBTQIA category of the Reader View's Literary Awards, and is a 5-star Reader's Favorite Awards book.

They are currently working on final book in the series, Honor Bound: Book 6, set to release in winter of 2025. Vera, a prequel/companion to the Honor Boun ...more

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	Honor Bound: Book 1 by Athena Ryals (Goodreads Author), Kylie R Bean (editor) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erato: Flash Fiction by Alex Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Guinevere Chase (Editor), T.C. Mill (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honor Bound: Book 2 by Athena Ryals (Goodreads Author), Kylie R Bean (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honor Bound: Book 3 by Athena Ryals (Goodreads Author), Kylie R Bean (editor), Allen Moya (cover artist) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honor Bound: Book 4 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honor Bound: Book 5 by Athena Ryals (Goodreads Author), Ky Bean (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

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