First published 2022
A human painter meets a gentry queen over wine that changes everything. Their love threatens his mortality and her eternal existence. Meanwhile, feuding neighbors find themselves dragged into the Veil Between Worlds, where a living statue joins them in a vicious succession war. An investigative reporter goes undercover at Seafall City Laundries, hunting the story that will define her career. What she discovers defies all belief. A widow returns to an oak grove to honor her dead husband. There she encounters a being from another realm who presents her with a choice that will reshape everything. Two gentry queens scheme to commandeer a human rocket ship for an impossible heist. They plan to steal the moon itself. These five stories expand the interconnected worlds that C. S. E. Cooney first revealed in her acclaimed novella Desdemona and the Deep. Each tale weaves together magic and technology, immortal beings and mortal humans, love and loss across multiple dimensions of reality.
Genres: science-fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, dark-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Seafall City, Veil Between Worlds
Period: Eternal
292 pages · Hardcover · Mythic Delirium Books
Content warnings: death, violence