Sarah Z. Creates

Seven times a First Daughter has been born. And seven times, she’s died, the weight of her magic smothering the breath in her lungs before she can utter her first cry.
This First Daughter must live, because time is running out.

That is Sophya’s task: to protect the First Daughter from her own magic. To succeed where so many Seers before her have failed.
But more than magic threatens the First Daughter, and Sophya must risk more than ever to ensure the girl survives— even when that survival threatens everything Sophya cares about.

When it comes to trouble, Selah of the Weavers rarely goes looking — but somehow, she always finds it.

The late-night escapade with her mischievous cousin Eryka was supposed to be harmless fun. But when Selah stumbles into the moonlit embrace of a Fae-bred tree with a taste for magic, this clandestine adventure turns into a frozen, chime-filled disaster.

Between a laughing cousin, an exasperated guard and an antidote that might well be worse than death by tree, Selah’s learning one thing fast: unintended consequences can stink.

Selah of the Weavers was a perfectly ordinary girl. Daughter of merchants. Best friends with her cousin. Little known and little cared about outside the boundaries of her family trade.

Except …

The Seer — the woman no one can know is Selah’s mother — has commanded that Selah’s adopted family participate in the Reckoning, a bloody assessment of power and wealth that can have deadly consequences.

But some secrets refuse to stay in the shadows.

The Schola was meant to keep Selah of the Weavers safe.
But even the Schola’s magic can’t protect Selah from what hunts her beyond its walls.
Or from the dangerous truths she’s been bound by geis and blood to keep.
To shield her family, Selah must risk betraying those very secrets — a choice that could bring more bloodshed and heartbreak to the friends she’s claimed as her own.
Now, a new reckoning is rising.
And this one may be far more personal — and far more devastating — than she ever imagined.

Judy expected an ordinary morning — until wild magic tore open the sky and ravening shadows shattered everything she loved.

When the storm passes, Ehslyng’s promise of safety is shattered. Its protections have failed, and the truth behind that failure may be more dangerous than the monsters themselves.

With only a blood-stained token of a broken pledge and a truth no one wants to believe, Judyt must leave what remains behind and carry a message powerful enough to shake the foundations of the realm.

Aedh Daygh Fyontan has a problem. Actually, he has three:

Someone sent his sister-by-heart a severed finger.

Someone sent Selah of the Weavers the same thing.

And Aedh should really only care about one of those things.

Set during the events of “In the Shadow of Secrets,” this story slips into the quiet space Aedh keeps for himself — where the only way forward is letting in someone he’s certain is nothing but trouble.