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Book Cover Design Brief

I need a full wrap design for the second book in my fantasy series. I've attached the cover for the first book. I'd like the same font and title style (color can be different) but the rest is open to change as long as it's obvious the books are part of the same series.

Title - Realm of Insanity
Subtitle - A Novel of the Riandori Realms
Title/Subtitle Font - Ringbearer
Author - Stephanie Briarton
Author/Blurb Font - Gadugi
Trim Size - 5.5 x 8.5
Pages - 410

Blurb -
Things have gone well for Eselle since her brother reclaimed Likalsta and freed their people: Tavith is becoming a stronger king each day, Cristar has found a home in the castle and its gardens, reports keep pouring in about peace within the lands. So why does Eselle feel antsy, as though something is missing?

When the neighboring king invites Eselle and Tavith to Pasdar to rekindle relations and celebrate his birthday, Eselle jumps at the chance to travel again—and search for Kyr, who’s still tracking Tryllen Grox before the former prince can threaten Likalsta’s hard-won peace.

Pasdar proves to be a pleasant realm, and Eselle and her friends settle in, until Tavith’s sanity begins to falter, and murder attempts on a Pasdaran noble shift to include Eselle and her brother.

With limited options, Eselle and her companions join forces with a Jalat warrior and the Pasdaran princess to protect their loved ones. The farther they run for safety, the more the dangers envelope them and Tavith's grip on reality splinters. How can Eselle save her brother from his own mind?

Basics -
The setting for the story is traditional medieval based fantasy world - tunic/jerkin, boots, cloaks, swords, castles, magic, horses, wooden/stone houses, etc.
The first book mainly took place in the forests, hence the trees. The second is during the summer and moves into a capital city for a large portion of the book, then onto a large wooden ship that is taken over by pirates, then onto an isolated island where the characters are hunted by soldiers and battle them as well as a hurricane. So anything pertaining to any of that is acceptable.
The main storyline is about Eselle trying to help her brother, who's targeted for assassination and battling insanity, which is the result of a voodoo style magic be done on him by a rival, though the characters don't learn that until close to the end. Until then, he thinks he's being haunted by a malevolent person from his past.

I'm open to ideas both with and without the main character on the cover. If you have a design that includes the character, I would like either different images of the same woman, or a woman who at least looks a lot like her, or the picture done in a way that obscures or hides her features enough that you can't tell it's not the same woman. I don't want to use the same image as the first book cover though.

I've finally tracked down more images of the woman on book one, but note, in the one picture she has elf ears and my character is not an elf, so that would need changed. Hopefully this link works.
https://adobe.ly/37cYeEi

Target Market(s)

Adult fantasy readers, I have a roughly 60/40 split on female/male readership

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Font styles to use

Other font styles liked:

• Ringbearer for title/subtitle, Gadugi for author/blurb

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• Ringbearer font for title and subtitle
  Gadugi font for author and blurb
  Traditional fantasy world feel - similar to Middle Earth or Westeros in buildings, clothing, traveling, etc.

Nice to have

• sense of adventure
  since the last book had a relatively dark cover, I'd like this one a little lighter (but not bright)

Should not have

• While I have a lot of sexual tension in the books, I don't want scantily clad women on the cover. My strong female lead wears a full set of clothes.

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