Ich0rr
Katelyn Watson has spent her life acting as a shield for her best friend, Tammarah Xaine Smith. Haunted by a past of shadow and betrayal, Tammarah has stripped her life down to a single tether: Katelyn. To everyone else, Tammarah is the "Ice Queen," cold, distant, and misunderstood. A persona she meticulously crafted to keep her loved ones out of the crosshairs of her past who might be used as instruments of her weakness.
But the past has a way of catching up.
In a moment of violent confrontation, Katelyn, Tammarah, and those people in their past are suddenly snapped out of reality and plunged into Vesperrot. A predatory world hidden beneath the mask of a fairy tale. In Vesperrot, "light" is a staged performance. It is a lush, emerald trap that leaches the souls of its visitors to fuel its own impossible vibrancy. As the troop traverses this "Land of Lies," their clothes bleed into gray and their memories fade into monochrome, while the world around them becomes terrifyingly vivid.
Amidst fields of colorless ash, only the Vesper-lilies bloom with color. They are vibrant not because they are healthy, but because they are engorged on the essence of what lies beneath.
Now, caught in the crossfire of an ancient, brutal war between two generations of Lamias: the deceptive Elder Brood and the ever-wings Neon Brood. Tammarah must navigate a realm where beauty is a death sentence.
The friendship will have to pay the cost of keeping each other. To escape, one must finally confront the darkness she ran from, or the very legacy of her bloodline will become nothing more than fertilizer for the eternal bloom of Vesperrot.