by Rory Power
First published 2022
Rhea commands the seasons while her twin brother Lexos controls the tides and stars. For a century, they have wielded these powers to maintain their father's grip on a small, fractured nation. Their younger siblings depend on them. Their people fear them. Their father's rage grows more volatile each year. An independence movement spreads through the countryside as neighboring nations circle like vultures. The royal family's hold on power weakens with each passing season. Rhea and Lexos have always stood together against their father's wrath, but the mounting pressures force them to make impossible choices. Foreign powers plot and scheme, ready to exploit any crack in the twins' united front. The siblings who once shared everything now find themselves pulled in opposite directions. Revolution threatens from within while invasion looms from without. Rhea and Lexos must decide whether saving their family is worth destroying each other. The magic that once bound them together may be the very thing that tears them apart.
Genres: fantasy, epic-fantasy, fantasy-romance, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Nation
Period: Century
565 pages · Kindle Edition · Del Rey
Content warnings: violence