The cauldron was found in a bog in County Roscommon by a farmer named Paddy Coyle, who was digging drainage ditches and expecting to find nothing more interesting than the usual complement of waterlogged timber and Bronze Age butter. What he found instead was a vessel of hammered bronze, three feet across, decorated with figures … Read more
9 min readNiamh Brennan did not believe in the old gods. This was ironic, given that one of them had been following her for the better part of a year. She first noticed the crow in January, perched on the railing of her balcony in Galway, watching her through the glass door with an intelligence that no … Read more
9 min readThe map arrived on the morning of the winter solstice, wrapped in oilskin that smelled of centuries and sealed with wax the colour of an old bruise. Dr. Linnea Strand found it wedged beneath the door of her office at the Blackmore Institute for Cartographic Studies, which was itself wedged into a narrow Georgian building … Read more
9 min readThe Court of Shadows had not taken a mortal consort in three hundred years. When a mysterious hand reaches through Elara’s bedroom mirror, she steps into a realm of living darkness and discovers a power she never knew she possessed — along with a sovereign whose centuries of emptiness might finally have found their cure.
11 min readWhen Nyx enters the Forbidden Wood to find the nightbloom that could save her dying sister, she encounters the Thornkeeper — an ancient guardian spirit who has watched his boundary alone for centuries. The only way through requires a binding that will let her feel everything he feels, including a loneliness vast enough to drown in.
9 min readWhen the Void opens beneath his city and the Obsidian Tower falls, Rowan summons a fire elemental named Ashara to help seal the breach. But the truth is more complicated than survival — he chose her specifically, drawn to her flame with a longing he has never dared to speak aloud. And Ashara’s price for helping is exactly that: the truth.
9 min readIn a city that has not seen sunlight in seven hundred years, dreamwalker Sera makes her living mapping the nightmares of others. When a Nightlord arrives at her workshop, tormented by the same dream for three centuries, she must walk through his burning past to find the door he has been too guilt-ridden to open.
11 min readAn elite assassin spends forty-seven days watching his target — a cursed queen who tends shadow roses in a colourless kingdom and waits patiently for her own death. When he cannot bring himself to pull the trigger, he steps out of the shadows and into a quest to break a curse that can only be survived by sharing it.
10 min readAfter a thousand years of war between the Courts of Day and Night, the Midnight Queen agrees to peace talks on the Twilight Bridge. She expects another arrogant champion. Instead, she meets a king who comes alone, without armour, and whose most dangerous weapon is the genuine kindness she has no defence against.
8 min readA solitary witch who lives at the edge of the world finds a wounded storm elemental on her doorstep. Cast out by the Storm Council for refusing to destroy mortal villages, Caelum is diminished and dying. As Lirien nurses him back to health, she discovers that the woman who preferred storms to people may have finally found a storm worth keeping.
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