Crowdsourcing Mornings: Swift Wings Shadowed Heart: Deluxe Edition Hardback

By Nathan Young on February 9, 2026

Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!

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This highly-rated romantasy features a morally gray heroine set on revenge and a straight-arrow dragon rider who is her teacher and considered forbidden.

Enter the unique world of Embernia where dragon-riding is the realm’s salvation. This is a unique series, suitable for 17+ that grows spicier with every book. This is the first of a series. If you’re a fan of Rebecca Yarros, Sarah J. Maas, and Jennifer L. Armentrout, this is a must-have novel.

An excerpt from Swift Wings Shadowed Heart:

Vengeance has wings, and I’ve just learned to fly.

My power is a secret, a forbidden gift the kings of Embernia have hunted for generations. When they tried to rip it from me, I escaped. But they destroyed my family.

Now, all I want is revenge. And I’ll get it by becoming what they never expected: a dragon rider.

To rise through the ranks, I’ll need the favor of Vaylen Stormsong—High Prime of the Sky Order, my commander, and maddeningly untouchable. He’s bound by duty. I’ll make him break every rule for me.

But our world is crumbling. The dragons are fading. Monsters gather at the borders. And the king’s paranoia turns its eye on us.

Worse still, I’m falling for the one man who’d damn me if he knew the truth. Because I’m not the warrior they think I am—

I’m the weapon they fear.

Read a sample of Swift Wings Shadowed Heart.

As of February 9th, this project has raised $8,800 of their $3,000 goal. This project has 3 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $10, you will get one eBook. For a pledge of $70, you will get one signed hardback. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ingridseymour/swift-wings-shadowed-heart-deluxe-edition-hardback?