Part of Star Mother
First published 2021
Ceris Wenden volunteers to carry a star child for the Sun God, knowing the birth will kill her. She wants to give her family honor and claim something as her own before she dies. But Ceris does not die. She wakes up alive, and when she walks back into the village of Endwever, seven hundred years have passed instead of nine months. Everyone she loved is long gone. Ceris sets out to find her descendants, traveling alone through a world that has moved on without her. On the road she meets Ristriel, a godling without a body, a fugitive running from powers far above him. He needs her help as much as she needs his. The two of them push through mortal lands and into celestial ones, chased by forces that do not want them asking questions. The closer Ceris gets to her family's trail, the more she realizes the Sun God's world holds secrets that touch her directly. What she thought was a sacrifice turned out to be a beginning, and the cost of surviving may still be coming due.
Genres: science-fiction-fantasy, romance, adventure, fantasy, epic-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, bittersweet, emotional, epic, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, found-family, slow-burn
Setting: Endwever, mortal lands, celestial lands
Period: seven-hundred-years
271 pages · Paperback · 47North
Content warnings: death, pregnancy-loss