Thereβs only one thing I know for sure: I have to save my mother.
Iβve been on my own for as long as I can rememberβseparated from my family, living in orphanages and homeless shelters, and trying to cobble together some version of security. Now, I work at a tavern, eat scraps for dinner, and squat in somebodyβs basement. The world outside is chaotic, with upcoming elections making our leadership unstable, technology changing at a pace that defies comprehension, and people with magic in their ancestry protesting their treatment by the government.
But itβs the most stable my life has ever been, and Iβm almost, dare I say it, happy.
Everything changes when Finn walks into the tavern. Heβs searching for an android murderer, and I get itβtechnology tends to break when I get too close. But itβs not me.
I might know Iβm not who heβs looking for, but he disagreesβwhich I discover when he tracks me to the basement where I live. But when the party upstairs crashes through the floor, Iβm scooped up by the mysterious force that has kept me safe my whole life, and Iβm back on the run again.
But this time, Iβm being hunted.
I know Iβll do whatever it takes to survive. After all, my motherβs life depends on it.
This exciting future fantasy novel is the first in a trilogy filled with action and adventure, futuristic technology and worlds, and magic.Β Β
Ariele Sieling is a Lifetime lover of all things sci-fi and fantasy. She grew up pretending to be a princess in her brotherβs stone fort in the woods, and now converts her excitement for stories into novels and novellas.
She is the author of Rove City, a series of sci-fi fairytale retellings set in space; Land of Szornyek, a complete post apocalypse with monsters; Sagittan Chronicles, a soft sci-fi series, and Ariaβs Song, as well as several essays, short stories, and articles. She writes non-fiction under the name A. J. Sieling. She lives in southern Pennsylvania with her spouse, a dog, and two cats.
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