Political fantasy rooted
in real history, real politics,
and characters who earn
their consequences.

Calendia — the city at the heart of the Zaria series

The Work

Books

Three series. Three worlds where the wrong decision at the right moment changes everything.

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Coming Late 2026

The Zaria Series·Book One

Walls of Dust

Political Fantasy

Women have been disappearing from Calendia. The crown has no official explanation. Aira Phoenix, scholar and minor noblewoman, has been quietly building one — until the evidence leads somewhere the crown would very much prefer it did not.

Now she is caught between King Illius Sedar, who needs the conspiracy contained, and Vaelâthir Veyan, a Treliite prince whose interest in her investigation is either an alliance or a trap. The Temple of Trobar is watching. The Northern Magic Tower knows more than it has said. And the prophecy that was supposed to be ancient history has started moving again.

Aira did not set out to become the most dangerous person in three kingdoms. She set out to find the truth. In Zaria, those two things have a way of becoming the same.

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Forthcoming

The Aethrys Series·Book One

The Gilded Cage

Epic Fantasy

The Dragor bloodline has held the dragon covenant for eleven generations. Saiana has spent her entire life being prepared to hold it for the twelfth. She knows the ceremonies, the obligations, the weight of what it means to rule a kingdom that other nations fear and envy in equal measure. What she does not know is what Valeryn looks like from the outside.

When she crosses the border for the first time, she encounters King Semeus Draknis of Drako — a man who has built his kingdom on the conviction that tradition is a cage, and that the strongest thing a ruler can do is break the one they were born into. His interest in Saiana is not political. That is what makes it dangerous.

The covenant that defines her family is older than the kingdom it protects. What it costs to keep it, and what it costs to question it, are questions Saiana was never supposed to have to answer.

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Forthcoming

The Covenbound Series·Book One

Covenbound

Political Fantasy

Jaime Morvane grew up in Valecrest knowing her mother kept secrets. She did not know the secrets had a name, a governing body, and four hundred years of institutional precedent behind them.

When her mother vanishes without explanation, Jaime starts pulling threads. The Conclave — the ancient council that governs the supernatural world hidden inside ordinary civilization — has been aware of her bloodline for years. It has protocols for this. What it does not have is a plan for a woman who has nothing to lose and no reason to cooperate.

Theodore Hale, heir to one of the Conclave's most powerful Houses, has been sent to manage the situation. Damon Abernathy, Jaime's oldest friend and the person who knows her best, is now one of the Necrotic Houses' rising voices — and wants things that put him directly in her path.

The Conclave built its world on the assumption that people like Jaime would never know it existed. They were wrong about that. They may be wrong about everything else, too.

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Lyssa Gentry

Writer. Veteran. Dreamer of worlds.
Stories about belonging, resilience,
and the choices that shape who we become.

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