Atreia Rising (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780648597919)

'alea iacta est'

In the beginning there was Wander Lust - without Essence, without Form: Dark, lifeless. Then came Life-of-Life, casting living essence across the heavens and kindling the first world, Atreia. Peace held-until Darkness, patient as a tumour in the void, learned where to strike.

When a mind-war brews - sleep versus wake, fear versus love - Leena is pulled between Earth-life and Star-life, between grief she carries and the destiny she can no longer refuse. To save Atreia is to save the seven sister constellations; to lose her is to concede the heavens. But love is a force the Dark must break first: Leena's bond to Rokk and the tangled fate of Vondine, half-brothers whose choices can bind or unmake a cosmos.

Part epic fantasy, part cosmic romance, Atreia Rising opens the Life-of-Life Series - an eight-book saga about awakening from a 3D sleep into higher sight, about memory kept and memory restored, and about the courage to choose heart over fear when the sky itself is cracking.

Expect ancient prophecies, star-born marks, winged cities, and a war fought first in the mind. Expect the shimmer of Western Australia's red-earth grandeur echoing as portal and metaphor. Above all, expect love-loud, stubborn, world-altering, to stand where swords cannot.

Perfect for readers of visionary & metaphysical fantasy who love sweeping worldbuilding, destiny-threaded romance, and series arcs that reward devotion. Book Two ( Alpha Rentaur) continues the saga with the prophets who "Mark" the Star One and name the Path.