The Things the Darkness Touched: Book One of the Rivalry of the Sun and Moon Paperback – March 21, 2026

“You shouldn’t be afraid of the dark, but rather the things that lurk in the dark.”Petrah Cenovis never expected her life to change. She attended her classes at Solas Shrine and listened to the matrons. She dreamed of hopeless romances with handsome Fae males and laughed with her friends. Everything was perfect, until the Star Tree, a sacred relic of Solas Soltis, the realm of day, began to burn. In her desperate haste to help put it out, Petrah was struck and given abilities known in her lands as an Empyreal. Now, she must navigate her way through learning unknown magick, coping with the new version of herself and the sacrifices that were abruptly taken from her.Ryatt Williams felt the earth change the day another Empyreal was brought into it. As did the Queen of Natrix Noctus, the realm of night. When she asks for a group of Fae to retrieve the new conjurant and bring them back to train at Moonhaven, Ryatt is first to volunteer. As one of the only shadow-wielding Fae in both countries, his experience could be useful. Getting the Empyreal to come back with them, however, proved more difficult than he expected.Petrah and Ryatt have a long road ahead of them before the Queen reveals why she requested Petrah’s presence in Moonhaven. Join them as they start to understand each other, and perhaps grow to become something more. Read more