To Dave Lane, I am grateful that you gave me this fabulous opportunity through Evolved Publishing—a wonderful home to an author who appreciates the efforts of a great team. Sue Fairchild, thank you for undertaking this long and arduous journey with me as my editor. Evie and her friends are better and stronger because of you, and so am I. Thanks for you editing insight as well as your quiet spiritual reassurances. And thanks to Richard Tran for developing a series of original and fantastical covers that truly illustrate Evie’s world.
Thanks to Red Adept Editing and Susie D. for adding the polish and shine.
Without Mary Fan, this series would have stuttered and stumbled many more times than it did. Thanks for reading early drafts. Thanks for letting me bounce ideas off you. Thanks for reassuring me that my concepts might actually work. Thanks for helping me refine them.
To the readers who took a chance on Evie from book one, I hope you’ve enjoyed the journey, and thanks for being here with me until the end.
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About the Author
Karissa lives in North Carolina with her kid, her husband, the occasional in-law, and a very hairy husky. Some of her favorite things are coffee, dark chocolate, super heroes and Star Wars. She can quote Princess Bride verbatim. She loves to read and has a sweet tooth for fantasy, sci-fi, and anything in between.
On the weekends, you'll find her at flea-markets looking for rusty things to reuse and repurpose. In the summer she's camping and kayaking at the lake, and in the winter, she's hopefully somewhere on a snowy ski slope.
Please connect with Karissa online at www.KarissaLaurel.com, and be sure to follow her on Goodreads. You can also follow her at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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Everything that has happened—is happening—will happen again. This is the law of the universe, the beginning and end of a story told to me by someone so bright, I was merely a shadow by comparison.
In order for you to fully understand, I must spin this web from the middle—the day of my seventh birthday.
The Age of the Ancients dwindled in the Empire of Mu. With time grew the population of the lesser beings, the Rahma. Being lesser both in strength and mind, the Rahma depended upon us Ancients for support. Our mere presence extended and improved the lives of the Rahma people. It seemed only natural for Ancients to rule the twelve kingdoms, yet two Rahma kings ruled the second kingdom, Nex.
I resided in Nex, a kingdom divided by a wall. The twin rulers each ruled their own city and created their own laws. One side of the kingdom prospered while the other, Macellarius, suffered. My brother, Abyssus, and I grew up in Macellarius. We knew very little of the struggles in the community, as our father never let us experience the true suffering of commoners, but we saw it from the palace.
The people’s cold stares called to us from below. They wished for us to ease their suffering, but we were children, and we played no role in our father’s rule.
I often wondered why they loathed him.
