Don’t think. Just fly.
The Wingbound Series
A vibrant fantasy with winged people, a floating island, unpredictable dragons, and a wild adventure into the unknown.
The moment Ledger befriended the winged girl, he knew he was doing something wrong. Afterall, Alouette was from Ellery, the enemy island in the sky that rotates around his world and who’s people fly down to battle his village every year. And every year is village is at a loss.
One year, the island returns and Alouette is gone. They’re all gone. While his village celebrates, wingless Ledger is faced with a choice:
Follow the rules and let the island drift away… or board the island and search the world for her. But following the rules isn’t always the right thing to do when you’re born to be the exception.
Jump into the world of Wingbound and the adventures that awaits!
THE FULL SERIES IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Book 1: Wingbound
Book 2: Wingless
Book 3: Wingspan
Novella 3.5: Little Dove
Ledger is supposed to fear and despise the Sky People of Ellery.
When an Ellerian girl named Alouette with beautiful, white wings sneaks into his village, everything changes. With his village at war with the winged people who live on the floating island that circles their world, he does the unthinkable: he befriends her.
In Ledger’s seventeenth harvest, Ellery returns empty. The Sky People are gone, Alouette is missing, and Ledger must make a difficult choice—continue life as usual in the blacksmith workshop or board the island against the elders’ wishes and find her.
From debut author Heather Trim comes a vibrant fantasy where following the rules isn’t always the right thing to do when you were born to be the exception.
*Softcover
“I must get home before someone else I love dies.”
Imprisoned on a floating island, four wingless friends need to get home before an assassin strikes at the heart of Balfour. Facing the dangers of the land and sky, young Ledger must help them escape and lead them home.
But his adopted brother, Tolliver, won’t leave just yet. He is dead set on finding his winged family, the ones who threw him away at birth. Will they accept him or execute him? Either way, Tolliver intends to try.
Award-winning author Heather Trim’s limitless imagination takes flight once more, where your most daunting limitation can be your greatest weapon.
*Softcover
The longer they’re missing, the higher chance they’re all dead.
Ledger’s father and many Balfourian men have been taken prisoner by a bloodthirsty tribe of savages. If they are to be rescued, Ledger is going to need an army. But there are precious few left as he struggles to step into the leadership role that’s been thrust upon him.
Tolliver is ready to answer the call to rescue the men of Balfour but his wife, Kava, asks him to stay home. He fights everything within himself to keep his family alive and together.
Alouette has secret plans of her own after the loss of her father and betrothed. To avoid hurting anyone again, she wishes to escape on Ellery and leave behind everyone she’s ever known and loved, especially Ledger.
From an award-winning author, Heather Trim, comes the brilliant finale of the Wingbound Series where family means you’re never a lost cause.
*Softcover
Little Dove. Paloma. Huyana. Orphan Girl. No matter what they called her, she never let it hold her back from getting what she really wanted.
Held hostage on a merchant ship sailing the eastern shores, Huyana, finally takes the chance to return home to find her parents who hid her on that very ship fifteen years before.
Every year she begged to be taken home. And every time the captain refused. Every time she took no for an answer. Until this year.
Heather Trim delivers another fantastic tale in a prequel to the Wingbound Series where no matter how many times you say goodbye there can be even more hellos, if you let them in.
*Softcover
A vibrant fantasy with winged people, a floating island, unpredictable dragons, and a wild adventure into the unknown.
The moment Ledger befriended the winged girl, he knew he was doing something wrong. Afterall, Alouette was from Ellery, the enemy island in the sky that rotates around his world and who’s people fly down to battle his village every year. And every year is village is at a loss.
One year, the island returns and Alouette is gone. They’re all gone. While his village celebrates, wingless Ledger is faced with a choice:
Follow the rules and let the island drift away…
Or board the island and search the world for her.
But following the rules isn’t always the right thing to do when you’re born to be the exception.
Jump into the world of Wingbound and the adventures that awaits!
*4 Softcover Books
Ledger is supposed to fear and despise the Sky People of Ellery.
When an Ellerian girl named Alouette with beautiful, white wings sneaks into his village, everything changes. With his village at war with the winged people who live on the floating island that circles their world, he does the unthinkable: he befriends her.
In Ledger’s seventeenth harvest, Ellery returns empty. The Sky People are gone, Alouette is missing, and Ledger must make a difficult choice—continue life as usual in the blacksmith workshop or board the island against the elders’ wishes and find her.
From debut author Heather Trim comes a vibrant fantasy where following the rules isn’t always the right thing to do when you were born to be the exception.
*Downloadable ePub
Meet the Creator of Wingbound
Heather Trim, an award-winning author, conference speaker and cookie eater, inspires with her unique perspective of spirituality and the world. She lives in Georgia with her husband, Kevin, and six lively children and three delightful grandchildren. Heather enjoys bullet journaling, movies, and reading too many young adult novels.
Book Trailers
Book 1: Wingbound
Book 2: Wingless
Book 3: Wingspan
Reviews of the Wingbound Series
Author Q&A about Wingbound
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In 2013 I wrote the first 2 chapters of WINGBOUND on a whim. It sat for two years in the dungeon of my computer before I started seriously writing the rest of the story. Every so often, the story would come back to me. I needed to know if he found her and how.
In November of 2015, I was homeschooling 5 kids and frenzied to get a moment alone because the story was coming to the surface. I had to write it. So each week night, after a full day of homeschooling, dinner making, and cleaning up after a full house, I would sit at my desk in my bedroom and just write. I was only left alone for 15 minutes at a time before the next kid had to ask a question, or needed help, or wanted me for whatever crazy reason. My darling husband then took it upon himself to field the endless pestering so that I could write. And write I did. Thanks to him.
I finished the last sentence of WINGBOUND on a trip (from Georgia) to San Francisco, sitting in a Starbucks in April 2016. I may have cheered among the preoccupied, caffeinated strangers.
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I am a daydreamer and cloud gazer. Sunsets rock my world. When the clouds and the sun were placed just right, I could see an island in the sky, floating on the breeze. Could people live on that island? Well, they would need to have wings. What if they attacked us on the ground and we had to pay tribute? We paid. And when they returned the next year the same thing happened, until one year, a winged girl flew down, so she could meet one of us on the ground. It happened to be a boy named Ledger. What would that dangerous meeting between two pre-teens look like? It would be darn cute and adventurous!
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I love the study of personality and use the Color Code in my personal and ministry life. I love to understand patterns of behavior, so this is where I started with choosing my characters, but as they grew and developed, I realized that I was using different behaviors and ways of speaking from certain people I know.
Angus is a lot like my husband. He’s a brute, a tank, and sometimes says weird things. “Holy straw mattress!” ~ Angus
Hollis is a combination of the wildest sisters in the world. Erin and Amber. Hollis is a wildcat and does all sorts of crazy things. They dragged me into all their crazy scheme and I often responded to them as Ledger does in the story.
The straight arrow, Tolliver, is a lot like my brother. Doing things for people’s own good, rule follower, strong leader, etc.
Lastly, the physical description of Roi du Ciel came from a random stranger sitting in Starbucks when I reached the chapter where he is first seen. I took out my phone, snapped a picture, and kept writing. I would share it here, but I don’t want to seem like a stalker. But he had GREAT eyebrows!
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Ledger is a cross between me and my son, Gabriel. (We are similar in personality, so it works.) I am the one that’s afraid of animals, and afraid of the dark. I am a total wimp. I refer to myself as a “fainting goat” because when I’m startled, I freeze and can’t think. Sorry Ledger.