Stolen Suns

Do you remember the last time the sun shone? The sky was the color of bluebirds, and the clouds were white as lilies. You could see colors all the way to the horizon. Then it all turned red, then violet, then dark.

This is a story of eternal night, the clockwork city, the petrified woods, and the precious resource of sunlight. While the empress prepares to break a centuries-old contract with the monsters of the dark, children are disappearing one by one. Rebellion explodes in the streets. The forest swarms with yellow eyes.

Three lead the way toward the end of everything, though they don't know it:

Alexis, the loyal warrior with misplaced trust and a poisonous secret;

Briony, the miscreant who stands defiant in the belly of the devouring forest;

and Runa, whose faith in the human heart may finally break the masks of the ones who were lost.

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