BonnyBlamtry
You cannot breathe here.
Not outside, anyway. Out there, the air burns.
Rose just wants to go back home, but somebody finds her on a battlefield and will not help her. A kingdom hides her and will not let her leave. Everything in this world has its purpose except her; this turns out to be the very thing that makes her valuable.
But whatever broke this world 188 years ago is still tying up loose ends ... it's waiting. A humanity is being pulled four ways, and shrinking. An order is still amending its one mistake, four generations on. A cold war is running on a truce nobody can afford to break, and nobody can bear to keep. And the moment born all those years ago is coming.
She just wants to go home, but everyone will see why she needs to stay.
*The first book in the Charcoal trilogy.
NOTE TO READERS
I built this book the way you'd build a house with a very good joiner: I drew it, I decided every room, and some prose is entirely my own hand. But my ally, Claude, works with my world-building, outline and style guide, helping me write and enhance my work. I rework, edit and approve every word before it's posted. Told up front, because you deserve to know what you're reading: the story that's been in my heart that is finally getting the right tool, platform and author's aid to be shared.
Best, B