About Dreaming of Eira
FREE August 11–13 — Book One of the complete five-book Awen Legacy.
Olwen Ellis is twenty-three, studying anthropology, working in an antique shop, and slowly falling apart. She has panic attacks, an inhaler she reaches for like a lifeline, and a vivid inner world she’s been escaping to since her siblings died — a medieval Welsh kingdom called Bryn Caer, where she is someone braver, someone whole.
Then a mirror arrives at the shop with a spiral trapped beneath its glass. The spiral is breathing. And the world she built to survive her grief turns out to be real.
In Bryn Caer, she is Eira: apprentice to a wise woman, summoned by a king to protect a stone that breathes new realities into existence. In Illinois, she is Olwen: orphan, insomniac, and the last surviving member of the Ellis bloodline — a family someone has been hunting for generations. When the boundary between worlds begins to collapse, Olwen must decide which reality to trust: the one that’s breaking her, or the one that might be real.
Readers are calling it “unique, imaginative, raw” with “incredible lyrical writing” — a fantasy for anyone who loves Welsh mythology, dual worlds, found family, and heroes who save the world without being fixed by it. Perfect for readers who want mental health representation that’s honest, magic that’s ancient, and a series they can binge to the very last page.
The Awen Legacy is complete — all five books available now. Download Book One free and start the journey.
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Author Bio:
Melinda Martin spent years working in supply chains and software — which is why the villains in her fantasy novels don’t carry swords. They carry clipboards, wear corporate badges, and smile like a meeting is about to start. She figured the scariest monsters are the ones with efficient processes.
By night she wrote The Awen Legacy, a complete five-book fantasy series about grief, healing, and a woman who discovers the world she invented to survive is real. She wrote it the stubborn way — no publisher, no shortcuts, half a million words — because the story wouldn’t leave her alone until it was finished.
Melinda lives in Georgia with her family, where she cooks, gardens, writes, and is already taking notes for the next series. She believes broken things are worth studying, second chances are worth the paperwork, and the ordinary — a good loaf of bread, a repaired gate, a quiet morning — is worth saving a world for.