[The Magic of Water 01] • Sigquaya

All her life, Arteura Denaeus has been raised in the cruel and oppressive culture of the Empire of Brynslæd. A culture based on fear and ritual. A culture that took her brother Tristan’s life. Five years have passed since his death, and she is a young woman now—one with a tainted family name. Still, she is also a warrior at heart, and the possessor of an ancient, forbidden magic called Sigquaya.

How can Arteura hide who she truly is in such a deeply entrenched society? And, should she?

Ultimately, she must choose her fate, risking her abilities becoming known not only to the people of Brynslæd, but especially to the Elder of the Temple—a man with many secrets of his own.

Arteura’s brother Tristan was the firstborn of the Denaeus family, and just a boy when he was offered as a sacrifice to Brynewielm—the god of fire and harvest. And yet he survives, raised by a colony of survivors in a hidden community called Cierra. Now, five years later and despite warning, he still yearns to return to his family in Brynslæd. And, like his sister, he struggles with the choice thrust upon him as he faces a treacherous journey back through the same passages that brought him to Cierra. In doing so, he threatens the discovery and certain death of the very people who once saved him.

Gods and monsters, dark passages, family bonds, and hidden magic, all twist themselves together for one family’s journey in the first book of the Cierran stories.