TRS Valentine's Day 2026
As the Crow Flies by A. Catherine Noon & Rachel Wilder
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A queer, magical, slow‑burn romance about healing, belonging, and the courage to be seen.
Caden Meadows has spent his whole life on the run—hidden by a clairvoyant guardian after surviving the massacre that destroyed his family. He thinks he’s finally free as he heads to college… until the truth catches up with him.
Caden isn’t just a dormant shifter. He’s a Healer – a rare kind of Shaman born once in a generation.
Forced to abandon the human world, Caden enters Volare Academy, a school for shifters, where everything he thought he knew about himself unravels. His magic is waking. His past is hunting him. And four powerful alphas feel an unmistakable mate‑bond to him.
He never asked for destiny. He definitely didn’t ask for four mates. But some bonds refuse to be ignored.
As the Crow Flies launches The Foundlings, a queer, magical, slow‑burn romance about healing, belonging, and the courage to be seen.
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A. Catherine Noon
My official bio came to me when mulling over my two main passions: words and yarn. It hit me that they’re the same thing: “For author and textile artist A. Catherine Noon, it’s all about the yarn, both metaphorical and literal – spinning a yarn, knitting with yarn, weaving, sewing, painting, sharing stories and good times over a cup of coffee with dark chocolate.”
I’m a born storyteller. I love to talk and I love to write. I sometimes feel, in my heart of hearts, that the internet was developed by and for people like me – natural networkers who love to talk with anybody about anything. After Y2K, the world belongs to the geeks. Teaching is a natural extension of that instinct. I find I’m just as passionate about helping other people get onto the page as I am about my own writing.
I’ve written all sorts of things: fantasy, science fiction, autobiography, cooking, spirituality, and a host of other topics. I recently rediscovered a love of poetry, because it uses words to express the inexpressible. Essays, too, have fascinated me for a long time, though I didn’t know what name to call the style of writing I liked – it certainly wasn’t the dry-as-bones “essays” from high school days. Phillip Lopate did a lot of good for the field of letters in general, and me in particular, when he published his ode to the essay, The Art of the Personal Essay. Turns out, I’m a fan of Montaigne. Now that I’m an author and have to promote myself, I get to write essays for my different blogs. I even have a basket of topics on which I feel confident to write.
Finding one’s voice can be a lifelong pursuit. I know it has been for me. Being able to own that voice, and speak in that voice, takes practice and gentleness. A word at a time, we learn to get, and stay, on the page. The same goes for knitting. It’s a very Zen process of accumulating stitches and those stitches turn into a garment, or art object, or soft furnishing, or a toy, or anything the knitter can conceive.
Rachel Wilder
Hello fellow readers, I’m Rachel and I love to create and share stories that keep you up all night and make you late for work. Born in Boston, I traveled and lived around the US before setting under the bright neon lights of Las Vegas. I write with my wonderful co-author, A Catherine Noon. Come on an adventure with us and share our world of romance, urban fanstasy and the excitement of the supernatural.
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