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Join Nadia in her epic duel as she fights for her joy. Yearning for motherly affections, she has only ever been met with fire as she straps a bow at her back, a sword at her hip, and a shield at her chest. Nadia pursues peace as best she can, but she finds herself all too often on a tattered battlefield brawling a fantastical illness.

With obsidian wings, this beast creeps into her dreams and her daily life as a university student. As she starts a new journey studying abroad at Sciences Po in Bordeaux, she begins to find comfort in the distance and excitement in the love interests provided by this quaint French city.

Thorn explores the depths of suffering that originate from an undiagnosed mental disorder and the trauma that follows those in its wake. Loving someone who wounds you is an incredibly traumatic experience. Can Nadia protect her joy? Will she ever be able to trust someone with her heart? Can she let her own mother go? Fall in love with a warrior and champion her, as she prepares for battle against her mother, riddled with illness.

Ultimately, through focusing on the parts of life that are extraordinary, Nadia fights to mend the pieces of her that are broken and learns how to give to herself what her mother couldn't.