C. Brewer writes adult epic fantasy about complicated families, impossible choices, and the people we become when power asks more of us than we ever intended to give.

Her debut novel, Arc-Mutar: The Heart of the Queen, follows a woman who has spent a lifetime escaping the fate she was born into. Now a wife, a mother, and a queen, Rayale has built the life she was never meant to have, only to discover that an ancient power has been waiting for her all along.

When she isn’t writing, she works in healthcare, where years spent with people in moments of crisis have shaped her fascination with resilience, identity, and the extraordinary things ordinary people will do for those they love. She lives in Northern California, where she can usually be found editing one more sentence, reading fantasy, or negotiating for couch space with her fur babies Ginger and Wil.