Adult romantasy set in a world divided by an ancient wound. Two kingdoms, a once every hundred-year competition, and a magic that requires you to truly know your opponent. Enemies to lovers, slow burn. First in a series.

Book one: no explicit content. High tension, and that's a choice rather than a limitation. Book two: yes

First in a series. Nahara and Soren's story is a planned trilogy. 

Enemies to lovers. Slow burn. A magical competition. Forced proximity. Duty against desire. A desert kingdom and an ice kingdom. A magic system where knowing someone is the weapon. If any of those made you put your hand up, this is for you. Cliffhanger ending - book two planned for late 2027.

About 110,000 words

grief and loss · a dying land, thirst and scarcity · violence and injury, some on-page · chronic illness, including a child's · drowning and near-drowning · captivity and coercive control · child loss (not on page) · gambling, debt, and exploitation  · past corporal punishment · no on-page sexual content · on-page death of a companion

Once every hundred years both kingdoms send a champion to the Split — the wound that divides the world — to compete for the right to ask one thing of the other. The competition is called the Offering.

Each competitor is granted the power to name: to build entire worlds, called planes, out of what they know of their opponent. The other person has to survive the world built for them. The deeper the knowing, the more dangerous the world. First to survive three planes wins the Offering.

What the rules leave out: you cannot build a world from someone's interior without revealing your own in the process. The planes bleed both ways.

Read it if you loved: the trained-as-a-weapon-sent-behind-enemy-lines ache of The Bridge Kingdom — loyalty split down the middle, not knowing how much of what you were raised on was truth or poison. The cold-competent MC who thaws by millimeters in Shield of Sparrows — Soren communicates in almost-nothing. And the battle-worn heroine energy of Dire Bound. Nahara is thirty-two, twice-scarred, already lost the great bet of her life, and she is nobody's wide-eyed chosen one. The tension isn't what she discovers. It's what she decides.

Planned as a trilogy.

Planned for Fall/Winter of 2027