We are delighted to be revealing the cover for The Blinder by Erin Simpson, which is an epic fantasy story about three desperate competitors who risk their lives in a brutal cross-country race through an arctic mountainous range.
Releasing on March 17th 2026, The Blinder is available to preorder from Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million.
Orphan, Bastard, Changeling. They can’t all win. They can’t all live.
In the black of the arctic winter, three desperate competitors risk their lives in the Blinder, a brutal cross-country race with life-changing prize money—and a high mortality rate.
Nadya Rike’s village is facing the extinction of the Hiiden Hirvi, magical creatures her people have herded for generations. Nadya’s only hope of preserving her village’s way of life is to win the money to purchase the region’s last male Hiiden Hirvi.
Dominic Falk is the favorite to win the Blinder, and if he wants to fund the only surgery that can save his leg, he has to win.
Finn Volkov is newly disinherited, and he’s also being haunted. Or he’s going insane. Either way, he has a race to run. A race to win.
When catastrophe throws the three of them together and their secrets come to light, they must decide which is more important: winning or surviving. If they choose wrong, they’ll lose the chance to do either.
About The Author
Erin Simpson once read that, “When there are voices in your head, it’s inevitable you become either a serial killer or a writer.” Being a little squeamish in real life, she kills people on the page, instead. Someday, she would like to write a “cozy fantasy,” but her characters keep stabbing each other. She attended Drake University, majoring in things not strictly writing-related but still useful. A life-long Midwesterner, she and her husband live in Iowa where they raise feral children and well-mannered cats. The Blinder is her debut novel.
