Some truths are too bitter to swallow.
Iris has lived her life as the reluctant ward of the Archmagus, bound to his service and burdened by secrets she dares not uncover. Tasked with recovering magikal relics for his vast collection, she has long dreamed of freedom beyond the cold walls of the Citadel.
When a daring thief crosses her path on a dangerous mission, Iris is drawn into a web of intrigue that unravels everything she thought she knew about her past. As shadows of the ancient First Gods stir and monstrous creatures haunt the nexus of magic and science, Iris must confront the truth behind the Archmagus’s manipulations-and her own hidden power.
To forge a new path, she must choose between loyalty to a family of winged guardians who never fully accepted her and the unbearable consequences of the freedom she craves. In a world teetering on the edge of chaos, Iris’s decisions will ripple through gods and monsters alike.
Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this spellbinding novella weaves themes of found family, self-discovery, and the delicate balance between destruction and redemption. Welcome to a world where the taste of fruit and wine lingers with the weight of impossible choices.
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R.S.A. Garcia is a Nebula and Sturgeon Award winning writer of speculative fiction. She is also the winner of the Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics’ 2023 Media Award, and a Locus, Ignyte and Eugie Foster Award finalist.Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015).She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, The Sunday Morning Transport, and Internazionale Magazine.Her stories have been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards, translated into several languages, and included in a number of anthologies, including the critically acclaimed The Best of World SF, The Best Science Fiction of the Year, The Year’s Best Fantasy, and The Apex Book of World SF.The first book in her sci-fantasy duology, beginning with The Nightward, was published in October 2024 by Harper Voyager US.She lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an extended family and too many cats.
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