Queen of Ashes - Athinea Rising: Book I

"Every Darkness has a Light; every Light has a Darkness.
This is how it has been since the dawn of time, and this is how it must remain until the very end."

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There once lived a human girl with magic in her veins; for years she dreamt she danced in a glade of sunshine with a beast that wore the face of a little boy.
Spring melted into summer; summer into autumn; autumn into winter. As the mortal girl aged, the darkling boy followed suit.
Their meetings in her Dreamworld continued until one day, the young man offered the young woman her freedom.
The woman accepted.

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Athinea is a realm divided between guardians of light and creatures of darkness, and the darkness is rising.
Felicity is of mortal descent, a young woman trapped by an abusive partner and an overbearing father. Alone and afraid, Felicity seeks refuge in her Dreamworld, a place she has visited whilst asleep since she was a child.
Felicity believes her safe haven to be part of her imagination, but when she is offered freedom from her mortal life in exchange for a favor by a familiar stranger, she finds it is anything but as she is launched into the middle of a revolution against a maniacal queen.
In a realm ripe with magic, Felicity discovers not only her own identity, but also learns that perhaps her mortal soul plays a larger part in the chain of events to come, and that the man she has forged an impossible connection with could bring about the end of everything she holds dear.