In four months, Loenix’s world will implode. Literally.

A subject of a universe where lands randomly implode with only a year’s notice, sending its people to new lands with new lives, Loenix has always told herself she’s ready, there’s nothing left to lose. 

Still, to secure her future, she strikes a deal with the Mancer, who sends her on a quest to find an ‘old heart’. Failure will cost Loenix’s soul. With nothing but a riddle and her twin brother’s ghost to guide her, she sets off on a journey in her dying land, where the past and possible future promise healing, a path that only reinforces life’s impermanence.

The steps to retrieving her memory were easy. Remind her of an earlier event. Don’t let her meet you beforehand. Don’t start off by glaring at each other at the funeral of a man who’d also been wrapped in the Ifliaborn’s power. 

Three years have passed, and Ian can finally return to Olevretu Eilvsia to fix all the mistakes he made in that year. All the regrets that have been tugging at him in his time away can be smoothed out and tucked away. 

And yet, he fails spectacularly. Rainrose no longer remembers a single thing, her mind irreversibly full of spiraling thoughts about the fairies, the Foleswan Ocean conflicts, and the mystery boy she discovered from a diary. 

Things don’t always unfold the way we want them to, or even the way we planned them to—but perhaps it’s the way they were meant to.

Long before we’re born, we’re assigned someone. Another person, another soul. If you’re born on the same side as them, you’re almost certain to meet. And if you aren’t, well, the odds depend on the Ifliaborn.

~For the past two months, Ian has been wasting time in Olevretu Eilvsia. If he wants to leave, he will need to complete his silly mission. Or wait a year, but the last thing he wants is to spend any more time than he must there. Even if it just so happens to be the most beautiful, most peaceful place he’s ever been to.Living a life without variation, Rainrose has never wanted to stay. When the only thing keeping her home is taken away from her, their paths collide. Secrets are kept, promises are made, and feelings are eventually caught as they get closer and closer to the inevitable ending of it all.

LIFE AND DEATH. FORBIDDEN FEELINGS. ESCAPE.

Sasilene is surprised when the same woman who recruited her father seventeen months ago comes to rip her—not her more skilled, more genuine sister—out of her own life as well.

Though all she’s wanted is to know how her father is faring in the Eclipsed palace, being a Lunar guard for the King is less of a life commitment than an early death sentence. In a kingdom where the three races of people have different strengths and faded abilities, Sasilene quickly finds herself imprisoned in a game of life and death with the rival of her kind, forced to balance survival with her desire to avenge her father.

And everyone has a secret to keep.

From the remains of the palace, the Protectors manage to salvage two: the body of a woman drenched in flames and a fragile jester on the brink of death. Altalune’s sister, the last Protector guard, is still missing.

No one else knows what happened in the palace or why the palace caught flames. The only person who might is only willing to trade answers for stories. 

If I can’t be King, no one can. There are bombs hidden in the palace, destructive enough to wipe out the entire Venn. Only your sister can find the last location.

Can Altalune become a leader in time to find her sister? Or has the land reached its ending?

FEATURING FOR THE FIRST TIME: SEVEN SHORT STORIES FROM PRIM SUTCHIEWCHARN

TO MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION BEAUTIFUL 

IDENTITY WIPE

THAN

MY BROTHER’S PETS

LOST AND FOUND

THE BOARD BETWEEN 

THE ARTIST’S MIRROR