Part of Star Mother
First published 2022
The Sun vanishes from the sky without warning. Midday turns to darkness, and the darkness holds for four days. Aija, a farmhand who sketches and paints whenever her hands are free, is searching near the river when she finds a man collapsed on the ground. His skin burns hot as lamp glass and glows the same deep gold. He tells her his name is Saiyon. He bleeds light. The celestial war between sun and moon has knocked him out of the heavens and stripped him of his power. Aija takes him in. Attraction builds steadily between them, and she eventually understands what she is feeling: she loves the earthbound Sun God. Saiyon recovers enough to reclaim his full power and return to the sky, but that return threatens everything they have built together. Aija learns there is a path to immortality, one that could let her stay at his side. Saiyon refuses to back it. Aija goes anyway. The road ahead is darker and more dangerous than she expected, and the cost of an impossible love turns out to be very real. Star Father is the sequel to Charlie N. Holmberg's Wall Street Journal bestselling novel Star Mother.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, bittersweet, emotionally-complex, intimate, lyrical
Tropes: forbidden-love, god-and-mortal, slow-burn-romance, star-crossed-lovers
Setting: river
319 pages · Kindle Edition · 47North
Content warnings: death