The Fall of House Everlight

Lady Seraphine Everlight buried seven children before her thirtieth year. She was not prepared to bury an eighth.

When an eighth pregnancy arrives, she makes a vow: whatever it costs her, this House will stop grieving. The answer she finds is buried beneath her own ancestral Hall - an ancient altar, a warning carved in a language no living scholar can read, and a promise that sounds, to a desperate mother, exactly like hope.

To understand what she's found, she'll have to cross a border no mortal has crossed and returned from. To use it, she'll have to break a guardianship older than her own House's name. And to protect the daughter she can't risk losing, she'll have to give her away before the world ever learns she existed.

Seraphine gets everything she asks for.

It is not what she thinks it is.

THE FALL OF HOUSE EVERLIGHT is Book One of THE VEILBOUND - a complete, standalone origin epic that unravels the true story behind the catastrophe every later book in this series still lives in the shadow of. No chosen ones. No easy answers. Just one impossible choice, and the century of consequence that follows it.

Perfect for readers who want their epic fantasy dark, their grief unresolved, and their history unreliable.