What’s a fragile pickpocket meant to do when she kinda sorta triggers the apocalypse?
Runa can steal secrets—not from pockets, but from minds. On the flower-draped island of Akiponahai, she haunts the city terraces like a ghost, slipping into people's mindscapes to claim what they guard more fiercely than gold: their hidden truths.
But when she steals the wrong secret—one that could unravel the world itself—it's ripped from her by a foul necromancer, leaving her with fragments of a stolen past and a terrifying certainty of a doomed future. Now she's stuck with the very people she robbed: a cranky oracle who sees her death in every possible future, a legendary warrior who seems to see right through her, and a hyperactive child who won't shut up. A child who might be far more than anyone suspects.
Runa must choose between what she's always done—run away—and the one thing she's never done before: trust someone else.
For readers who crave:
- Flawed characters who refuse to be defined by their traumas
- Stories about belonging—found family, friendship, and love earned
- Magic systems born from the world they inhabit
- Lived-in, unique worldbuilding inspired by Polynesian and Aztec cultures
- Weird concepts with emotional cores
Fans of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, The Golem and the Jinni, and Uprooted will devour this sweeping emotional epic where survival means learning you're not alone.
Discover the secrets. Live the adventure.
