Alira

Stories

    What the Gods Made

    Eight strangers. Eight parasites. One increasingly impossible search for a cure. Mirelle has spent her life looking to the stars for glimpses of what comes next. Durge can barely remember what came before. She is a Selûnite oracle plagued by possible futures; he is an amnesiac Dragonborn plagued by violent urges he cannot explain. Neither expected to find the other. Now, after a month of surviving monsters, cultists, failed cures, and each other, their search has led them into the Shadow-Cursed Lands, where Mirelle’s visions are beginning to fail and Durge’s mysterious past is drawing dangerously close. Somewhere inside Moonrise Towers lies the secret protecting the tadpoles in their heads. All they have to do is survive long enough to destroy it. But when gods have already decided what you were made for, choosing who you want to become may be the most dangerous thing of all.

    The Turning of the Seasons

    Autumn and Winter were never meant to meet. When newly unveiled Autumn faerie Folia creates the impossible—a faerie circle of her own—she expects it to carry her far beyond the life chosen for her. Instead, she falls straight into the home of Firnel, a centuries-old Winter Sage who knows one thing for certain: she should not be there. Their seasons are forbidden to touch, their meeting should be deadly, and neither can explain the impossible peace that settles between them. As they search for a way to send Folia home, every answer leads to another question—and toward a truth about Nature, soulmates, and the seasons that could change Helveth forever.