The season of Nothun will arrive soon, where the twin Goddesses of the Cyan Moon and the Emerald Star, meet for their yearly evening of romance. Junia is working hard to produce enough candles for the celebration in the hope to gain enough money to finally marry her fiancée, Erander. But there is more than money standing in the way this year.
Ashna raiders are swarming the coasts, leaving burnt cities in their wake, and just enough survivors to whisper of the horrors they'd seen.
It feels like the end of the world as dreams and shadows are crushed before her, leaving Junia to struggle through a season she never expected. But there is hope.
Celestial Beings and woodsfolk alike are turning against the violence sweeping up the shores of Iell Drell, and Junia stands in the centre of the swirling mass. With her best friend Shandra, they'll search for help and a way to get those who have been taken home. Magic is in the air, and through the darkening days, it is important for Junia to remember that the sun still rises after the darkest night.
Autorentext
Jasmin Nyack is a writer of haunted tenderness, sacred rage, and soft endings that ache. Her stories often live at the edge of grief and magic, where ghosts carry casseroles and monsters sometimes just want to be held. She writes with the rawness of lived trauma and the precision of someone who's built their own mythology by hand.
She is a queer, neurodivergent creator who believes that tenderness is a form of rebellion?and that stories are one of the last true places we get to choose how we're seen.
Jasmin lives on unceded Coast Salish territory with too many notebooks, a beloved crew of plush animals, and a commitment to making beauty out of the broken.