Aethera

Lilly Monroe has built the life she was supposed to want. She's a rising Manhattan photographer, engaged to one of the city's most eligible bachelors, and one day away from her twenty-first birthday. Then threads of light start appearing that only she can see, and a woman who looks just like her steps out of a mirror of shadow to promise her death. Lilly is about to learn she was never supposed to exist.

In Aethera, children aren't born. They're woven on a living Loom whose threads run through everything and give the realm's seventeen factions their gifts. Lilly's mother, Queen Caelindra, wove her in defiance of the Choir's oldest law, then hid her on Earth with her magic sealed away. Now the seal is breaking. The Choir, Aethera's ancient lawmakers, want Lilly unmade. Her sister, Vespera, wants the Loom and its power of creation for herself.

An ancient prophecy promises that shadow, fire, and thread will birth something new and change Aethera for eternity. To fulfill it, Lilly must survive the Royal Trials and merge with the Being of Creation itself.

She won't face it alone. Her guides, Soren and his husband, Evander, lead her through a world she barely understands. Blue, her best friend since childhood, has been keeping the biggest secret of Lilly's life. Ash, the boy she once dragged through a meadow hunting imaginary fairies, is becoming something much more than a friend.

Every trial has a price. Saving Aethera may cost Lilly her life on Earth and someone she loves. The last price is a piece of herself she can never get back. Will her sacrifices be enough, or will she fall while the Choir closes in and Vespera seizes the power to unmake Aethera?

Aethera: Shadow, Fire, and Thread is a story of found family, forbidden creation, and what one woman will give up for the world she chooses to call home.

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