Not Here to Stay | snippet

prelude

D E D I C A T I O N

"For the ones who would rather hate themselves than forgive their past selves.

This one's for you."

S Y N O P S I S

A painstaking journey of a broken woman determined to heal set in a mythical world— a place of sky oceans, wisteria trees, emotions bottled in vials, scattered houses, dark pasts, backstabbers, unreliable allies and forbidden castles built on clouds.

Sarah Amani is a Worldsmith. At eighteen, she accidentally conjured a mythical world she called Lagenda from her mind with the help of a past lover, Malik. Five years had passed and she was on a straight path to healing and moving on. She made sure nobody could enter Lagenda again and only allowed people to come in as wanderers by giving them petals as tickets. It was her way of ensuring that Lagenda remained hers without destroying it. 

Just when she thought she could leave her past, she was invited back into the world with a note saying "You know what to do. -M".

She had to go back to Lagenda to make sure the person who sent her the note could not take the world from her. What Amani found is that Lagenda was not as abandoned as she thought it was. Determined to save her world from being exploited and smeared more than how it already is, she sets to burn every door and relic holding the world together. If she cannot keep Lagenda, nobody should. She tries to uproot and burn Lagenda to the ground but it seemed that the person who sent her the note had other plans. Together with her trusty dagger, Misya, her sister, a stubborn historian called Najmi and all the misfits she never dreamed of collaborating with, she would find herself propelling straight to her dark past and beloved world

C O N T E N T   W A R N I N G

This story contains triggering elements like abuse, rape (non-explicit) and panic attack(s).

N O T E

This is a just snippet of N.F Afrina's book Not Here to Stay. 

Not Here to Stay will be available at Shopee starting 12/3/22 Saturday at 12pm Malaysian Time. The first 100 buyers will get a free booklet of the raw author's notes, deleted scenes and snippets of the author's journal. The first 1000 buyers will get a dagger bookmark.

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