Part of Blood and Ash
First published 2025
Poppy's body lies shattered and powerless, trapped in stasis beyond the mortal world. Her consciousness drifts through dreams while the realm she left behind crumbles. Casteel confronts a reality stripped of her presence. Rage consumes him. His nature shifts in ways he cannot grasp or control. The kingdom teeters on collapse, and Kieran must bear the weight of leadership alone. He carries secrets he cannot voice, watching as the bonds between gods and mortals splinter. Days pass in a haze of mourning. Grief shapes their choices. Loyalty becomes a crushing weight rather than a comfort. Yet love persists as the single force preventing total destruction across all realms. These quiet moments reveal how the characters endure between catastrophe and hope. The story captures the hidden scenes of transformation, the private struggles with loss, and the small acts that sustain them when everything else fails.
Genres: drama, fantasy, adult-fiction, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, fantasy-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, grief-stricken, intimate, introspective, melancholic
Tropes: found-family, love-conquers-all, power-transformation, separated-lovers
Setting: mortal world, realms
161 pages · Kindle Edition · Blue Box Press
Content warnings: death