Everveil
At thirty-two, Marjorie Rhae Winters is tired of surviving a life that no longer feels like hers.
She spends her days exhausted inside a warehouse and her nights in the cottage that once belonged to her grandmother-the one place she hoped might help her feel like herself again. With only her beloved dog, Samson, beside her, Marjorie has learned to live with the empty spaces left by those she loved and lost.
Then one night, the wall begins to ripple.
Not crack.
Not open.
Ripple-like water.
When Marjorie reaches out to touch it, reality bends beneath her fingertips.
Moments later, she and Samson are no longer home.
They are in Brightmere-an impossible realm where castles rise among modern cities, magic exists alongside everyday life, and strangers seem to know more about Marjorie than she knows about them.
Even more impossible, Brightmere has given her back something she thought death had taken from her forever.
But this world holds other familiar faces, too.
Faces Marjorie never expected-or wanted-to see again.
And deep within Brightmere waits an ancient portrait of a red-haired woman who has been mysteriously aging for generations.
A woman who looks exactly like her.
People bow when Marjorie passes.
They call her Your Majesty.
And they insist their True Queen has finally come home.
There is only one problem.
Marjorie has never been here before.
As the line between memory and reality begins to blur, Marjorie must uncover why Brightmere knows her, why pieces of her past seem to have followed her across worlds, and why a realm she has never seen carries traces of a life she thought she understood.
Because in Brightmere, the past doesn't disappear.
It echoes.
And this time, Marjorie has no choice but to listen.