Syra Ward doesn't believe in fate. She believes in exits, locked doors, and getting out before the world decides she's the problem.
Then one night, the city stutters.
Streetlights flicker to static. Shadows stretch wrong. Black wings gather on power lines like they've been waiting for her. When a stranger named Riven pulls her into a rain-slick alley and tells her to run, Syra realizes the world she thought she knew is already breaking apart.
Mira and Echo arrive with a terrifying certainty - they've seen her before. In other timelines. Other endings. In every version, she dies.
Syra doesn't remember dying. She remembers the feeling of falling, the taste of metal, and the crows watching from above.
On a rooftop under green code-rain, she learns the truth: she is a fracture in reality. A version that shouldn't exist. And the crows are coming to fix the mistake.
There's only one way to anchor herself in this world - to let the crowmark burn into her skin and bind her to a story she doesn't fully understand.
Marked and hunted, Syra becomes part of something older and darker than she imagined. Because in this city, death is just another rewrite... and the crows always come back for what belongs to them.
Children of the Crows is a gritty urban fantasy with a glitch-reality edge, found-family tension, and a heroine forced to choose between survival and identity in a world where memory itself can't be trusted.
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Laura Carpenter writes emotionally charged contemporary romance with Irish heart, sharp dialogue, and characters who choose courage over convenience. Winner of the 2025 Impact International Indie Award for Contemporary Romance, she's known for stories rooted in consent, resilience, and found family. When she's not writing, she's plotting the next one with a cup of strong tea and a notebook full of ideas.