Vera
She carries every life they lost.
Book one of The Spiralbound TrilogyA dark, character-driven fantasy
Only one of them can be alive at a time.
Vera and Lior were married once. Now every death returns one of them to a world where the other has already gone.
The Spiral honors intent. The curse devours it.
The rule
Every ending becomes the other’s beginning.
Lior
His death returns Vera.
When Vera dies, Lior wakes. They have missed each other for centuries by a single breath.
The story
The curse preserved everything except their life together.
Every life returns with memories of their love, their grief, and the family they lost. Through those lives, one mystery follows them: strangers with different faces, familiar eyes, and answers they refuse to give.
Now the pattern is beginning to crack. Memories are surfacing where they should not exist. The rules are changing. Vera and Lior have stopped hoping for mercy.
For readers drawn to
- Memory magic
- Reincarnation mystery
- Found family
- Love tested across lifetimes
- Slow-burn, image-driven fantasy
Read the opening
The Ones Who Wake
The first breath always burns. Sharp. Cold. Unfamiliar; her lungs had forgotten how to be alive again. She swallowed and forced the air down, jaw tightening until the sting eased.
Vera woke on a narrow cot.
The ceiling hung low above her, beams splintered with age, moss threading through the cracks like veins. Damp wood seeped into each breath. A lantern swayed from a hook, its flame flickering in rhythm with the crackle of a dying hearth.
She knew this place, not by name, but by the way the air held still, as if waiting for her to move first.
Book Two Available now
The Fractured Curse
The curse has kept them apart through every life. Now it is failing.
Vera returns to a world that begins forgetting her in real time. Footsteps vanish. Roads fold back on themselves. Every fracture pulls the group closer to the truth the curse was built to hide.
Continues directly after The Cursed Loop
The Spiralbound TrilogyBook Three Coming soon
The Original Curse
The Loop is broken. The original curse still lives.
For centuries, Vera and Lior could only live one at a time. Now, at last, they have a future together. But Keraun intends to drain the world to build another, threatening everything they have fought to reclaim.
This time, if Vera and Lior lose each other, there will be no coming back.
The final book of the Spiralbound Trilogy
The Spiralbound TrilogyBegin the Spiralbound Trilogy
They want to know who did this to them.
And why the answer feels like something they were never allowed to remember.
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