The Shadow Beside The Moon

They told us shadow was evil. They said light was the only thing that kept us safe.

For four hundred years, Luminara has lived by that lie. The Order rules, fear keeps everyone in line, and no one dares ask why the winters are getting longer, the crops are failing, and the moon itself is starting to fade.

Elara never thought she'd be the one to question it all. She's just a girl with an old brass locket the only thing her mother left behind when she vanished years ago. But when the locket starts humming, and a figure made of dark and starlight steps out of the trees, everything she knows turns upside down.

His name is Kaelen. He's the guardian they've spent centuries hunting. And he tells her the truth no one is allowed to speak: Light can't live without shadow. Break the balance, and the whole world dies.

Now Elara is running hunted by the Order's cruel leader, Valerius, who wants to steal the locket's power and rule forever. She's chased by Morgrath, a twisted shadow who offers her something terrifying: total control, no more fear, no more running. And deep beneath the mountains, something older than both light and dark is waking up something that could remake everything... or unmake it all.

Elara came looking for answers about her mother. Instead, she found the fate of the whole world resting in her hands.

Will she bring light and shadow back together? Or will she reach for the kind of power that never lets go?