hiya! so this is all the pre-lore for my book: the sonnet of the stolen heart! Basically like a prequel, except not (more like the book of saints by leigh bardugo, it just basically explains everything in the certain religion or continent) TW to come

Born five minutes apart in a war-torn village, Andraea and Lucien were all each other had. Music, cake, and midnight hair-dye sessions kept them tethered to hope through poverty, abuse, and tragedy. But one burning night stole their futures and their lives... until the gods gave them a second chance. Now Champions of the Gods, they walk the line between myth and shadow, loyalty and fate, life and afterlife. She was a ballerina, a musician, a rising star in the gilded world of Songhaven's elite. Then she died. Resurrected under Stella's blade and stripped of everything but her will to live, Andraea trains under Sirius, the South Star. a divine tactician colder than the halls of Etharis. He's supposed to teach her how to kill, not how to feel. But the more they learn about the god-turning sickness spreading through the heavens, the more Sirius begins to crack. Somewhere between missions and moonlight, between grief and growing heat, she begins to wonder: what if the enemy they're hunting isn't an enemy at all? Lucien's life was simple: kill the people on your list, flirt with death, eat cake. (In that order.) He was doing just fine until he offed a mortal judge and accidentally pissed off Astraea, the Scales Star, who had been planning a divine judgment of her own. She ropes him into being her bodyguard just to make him miserable. Cleaning scrolls. Watching birds. Counting wheat. But everything changes when she suddenly turns mortal. Now, stuck with a grumpy ex-goddess and no divine guidance, Lucien must help her get her immortality back before time runs out. Along the way, he'll face divine hit lists, cosmic secrets, and worst of all, falling for the one star he never meant to touch.

He was the bastard prince no one wanted. She was the bard girl who gave him her heart. Now he's king- and the first thing he did was outlaw stories. Lyra Lightfoot once believed in fairy tales. She believed in love, in music, in Cyril Abecassis- the second-born prince with ink-stained fingers and a wounded heart. But power changes people, and Cyril didn't just take the throne of Xena; he's begun to destroy everything they once held dear. Authors are vanishing. Magic is hunted. A boy is burned for reading a book. And Lyra? She's running for her life with Arthur, a battle-scarred magician whose heart bleeds ink and fire. But Cyril is not done with her-not by a long shot. Because beneath his cruelty is a secret only she knows, a monstrous truth wrapped in soft promises and broken wrists. To save the kingdom, Lyra must dig through the ruins of the boy she loved and decide whether he can still be saved-or if she must become the villain in their story. A haunting tale of forbidden magic, fractured love, and the cost of telling the truth shows humanity at its lowest point- and how far one could go for a lost soul. TW: character death, accurate depictions of dead bodies, sexual innuendos, sex scene, rape, domestic abuse, homicide, genocide, parent loss, abandonment, blood, alcohol abuse and use, kidnapping and abduction, self harm, mental illness, suicide https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7tgc7SCD2q4OgtNTB5sTsW

Before kingdoms rose. Before magic was divided. Before the Stars themselves decided who would live and who would die, there was love. Elio, a mortal man of brilliance and heart, and Sophia, the Angel of Music, shared six years of quiet wonder. Together, they built a life full of warmth, creation, and devotion-until betrayal tore it apart. When Elio was assassinated at the hands of Acturus, the North Star, under the command of the Ether, Sophia was forced into a marriage that would ripple through time, binding angels and stars in uneasy alliance. But little did the gods know, from that union came four children who would change the course of history forever. Tatiana, the firstborn, could sing before she could talk and dance before she could walk. Destined to lead in spirit, if not by title, she would one day found a kingdom of music-but first, she must survive the harshness of her own hands and the cruelties of war that would leave scars deeper than the body. Isaiah, calm and devout, devoted himself to angels and their sacred law. But even the most faithful heart can be tested, and devotion can twist into obsession, driving a wedge between love, duty, and family. Lyric, marked by trauma and near death, discovered that words could heal what hands could not. Guarded yet kind, she learned to channel grief into prose, giving voice to the suffering of her people and finding light in the darkest moments. Rhian, the youngest, was different from the rest-no powers, only curiosity, and a mind determined to unravel the truths the angels preferred to hide. Science was his sanctuary, his rebellion, and his weapon in a world ruled by the unseen and the divine. Together, the Wyrd siblings navigate faith and magic, art and invention, loyalty and rebellion. Each carries the weight of their parents' love, the shadow of their father's death, and the impossible expectation to survive in a world that demands perfection, obedience, and power. That was then. It leads to now.