Where the Light Breaks

Aurel never asked to be chosen.
She just wanted answers-about the spiral-marked prophecy etched in her journal, about the visions that feel more like memory, about the truth no one will name.

But the world is shifting.
To find what's calling her, Aurel must cross a land where joy is law and sorrow is punished. In a court built on desire and longing, masked nobility dance while truth fractures quietly beneath their feet.

Meanwhile, far from her, the Archive begins to unravel.
Rooms loop. Wardlines flicker. Something forgotten is waking in the spaces between stories-and Rowan, still scarred from what she survived, might be the only one who feels it coming.

As the spirals tighten and the prophecy deepens, Aurel must walk into the heart of a power older than memory-without losing herself along the way.

Some lights save.
Some burn.
And some illuminate things you were never meant to see.

For readers who love:

• Dreamlike fantasy, haunted memory, and unraveling prophecy
• Queer characters, feral softness, chaotic found family
• Liminal magic, glimmering dread, creeping hope
• Gnomes who should not be trusted with confetti