Publication pending 2026

Lena T’Lalych has always dreamed of adventure—but as a midwife’s apprentice in a tiny backwoods village, that doesn’t seem likely to happen anytime soon.

But when the Emperor dies and a mysterious messenger arrives to name Lena as the lost heir to the throne of Illuvia, Lena is thrown from her safe home into a world of intrigue, assassins, and more responsibility than she bargained for.

As political pressures build all around her, Lena makes a discovery that thrusts entirely new dangers upon her—and leads her to question everything she thought she knew about herself.