Guided

(Book 1 of The Lunar Saga)

In Velunor, moonlight is law, bloodlines are kept, and every silence has a witness.

Lunaris Ithane Elyrath has spent centuries tending bodies, calming wild creatures, and keeping her House's grace sharpened. She understands pain before it's named, fear before it breaks, and the truths people hide behind fine smiles. After a collapse leaves her changed, Lunaris wakes to a world that has continued without her and a court that has learned how fragile power can look when forced to breathe.

She is no longer only a healer, a noble daughter, nor able to pretend her life belongs to quiet service. A bond she chose has become impossible to hide. A new life stirs beneath her heart. Her family's imperial favor is beginning to look less like favor and more like a secret the throne protected for generations.

An attempted assassination inside Velunor's moonlit walls exposes a truth the court would rather leave buried: someone is willing to spill sacred blood before Lunaris can stand in what she is becoming. As whispers rise from noble Houses, healer halls, and lands beyond Velunor's borders, Lunaris discovers that Elune's gift within her has deepened into something beautiful and terrifying but gifts carry teeth.

To protect her House and the empire that has begun to turn toward her, Lunaris must learn the difference between listening and trespass, healing and control, and survival and surrender. The court may see a woman wrapped in silk and old blood. They have yet to understand that softness can stand at the center of power and still bare its fangs.

Under Elune's eye, Lunaris is waking and the empire must wake with her.