The Whisper War – Book One of Threads of the Triad

Where Stories Quietly Begin

Stories often begin quietly, in the margins, in the places where honesty feels safer on paper than spoken aloud.
My first book began that way too.

This story marks the beginning of a Fae Queen Fantasy Romance where loss becomes the doorway toward connection and possibility.

A Moment Inside This Fae Queen Fantasy Romance

In those early notes, the queen at the heart of the story carried her own deep grief.
She had lost the woman she loved: her first mate, her steady light. In the aftermath, she did what many strong people do, she stood alone.

Duty became her armor. Silence became her companion. She wore the crown not out of desire, but because someone had to.

Stepping Away from the Throne

When she finally chooses to step down from the throne, she expects emptiness, not possibility.
What she finds instead is connection in its most unexpected form, not with one person, but with three men whose presence disrupts the quiet she has wrapped herself in.

The Three Who Walk Beside Her

Some readers may see the three men as a bold twist or a rebellion against what is expected of a queen.
A woman with three mates.
Three different temperaments.
Three different ways of being seen.

But for me, privately, quietly, they always meant something gentler than shock or defiance.

I didn’t write them as reflections of her wounds or as fragments of her past.
They were never meant to “fix” her through romance.
Instead, each one became a marker along her inner path, representing moments when her heart remembers there is more to life than duty, pain, or survival.

Echoes Along Her Path

Each man symbolizes a kind of rediscovery:

the reminder that rest is allowed,
the truth that connection can come from unexpected places,
the surprising gentleness that can pull someone back toward the world when they thought they were finished with it.

They are not saviors.
They offer clarity, revealing parts of herself she had forgotten how to see.
In the end, they represent possibility, not perfection.

Before the Story Had a Name

In my earliest drafts, these three figures appeared long before the story had a name.
I never meant for them to fit into one shape or one definition of love.
Rather, they exist to show that the path forward can open through more than one doorway, and that the heart, fictional or not, is far more layered and nuanced than tradition often allows.

For the queen, loving again is not surrender.
It is a choice to stay alive to the world, to connection, to magic, on her own terms.

Love as a Return to Life

And that, I think, is why this book became the first in a series.
It wasn’t only about worldbuilding, fae courts, tangled destinies, or ancient power.
At its core, I was writing about a character who discovers that her story did not end where she once believed it had.

She survives.
Then she grows.
And finally, she chooses life in all its complicated, unexpected forms.

A Story About Beginning Again

In doing so, she discovers something I learned while writing her:

Sometimes, a person returns to themselves not through a single love or a single path, but … through all the ways they allow themselves to begin again.

At its core, this book opens the first realm of a Fae Queen Fantasy Romance, shaped by healing, magic, and transformation.

Welcome to the first realm of The Threads of the Triad.
The story begins with loss, but it doesn’t stay there.
It opens, quietly and beautifully, toward possibility.

JazzySegfault

Read more about the series here:
https://jazzysegfaultnovels.com/books/

For readers who love fae fantasy, explore similar worlds here:
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/fantasy-romance