Thereâs only one thing I know for sure: I have to save my mother.
Iâve been on my own for as long as I can rememberâseparated 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 somebodyâs 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 itâs the most stable my life has ever been, and Iâm almost, dare I say it, happy.
Everything changes when Finn walks into the tavern. Heâs searching for an android murderer, and I get itâtechnology tends to break when I get too close. But itâs not me.
I might know Iâm not who heâs looking for, but he disagreesâwhich I discover when he tracks me to the basement where I live. But when the party upstairs crashes through the floor, Iâm scooped up by the mysterious force that has kept me safe my whole life, and Iâm back on the run again.
But this time, Iâm being hunted.
I know Iâll do whatever it takes to survive. After all, my motherâs 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. Â
Ariele Sieling is a Lifetime lover of all things sci-fi and fantasy. She grew up pretending to be a princess in her brotherâs 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 Ariaâs 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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