Tidal Rising

Book One of the Dark Star Trilogy

Nira has spent her life hidden within the canal city of Morava under the protection of Master Gio, the aging university librarian who raised her as his own. But when she awakens beside Gio’s murdered body and finds herself accused of the crime, the world she knew collapses in a single night. Pursued through Morava’s labyrinth of canals and narrow stone streets by the City Guard and the powerful Guilds that rule the city, she is forced into hiding with Matvei — a charismatic university student whose easy charm and reckless confidence conceal a far sharper mind than he allows most people to see. As darker forces begin moving beneath the city, strange rumours spread through Morava. Blood magic resurfaces within the forgotten catacombs beneath the university. A blind woman named Thala arrives from the sea carrying the scars of another age. And whispers begin circulating of a truth Asterra has spent centuries trying to forget: The Elementals may not be gone after all. But whatever silenced Ilythra three hundred years ago did not remain buried with the island.

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