The Heart of Sundered Stars
An Epic Fantasy Romance of high-stakes magic and war, where fated lovers must infiltrate a corrupt empire to stop an ancient, world-ending power.

In the sterile, magic-hating Ashgarian Hegemony, Lady Alexandra Mathis is an anomaly—a noblewoman hiding a catastrophic power she can’t control. To her society, her gift is a disease punishable by death. When a moment of crisis forces her secret into the light at a state gala, her gilded cage shatters, transforming her from a political pawn into the state’s most wanted fugitive. Her only choice is to flee into the toxic wasteland separating two warring empires, hunted by the very regime she once called home.
Her desperate flight leads her not to freedom, but into the arms of an even more dangerous fate. Rescued by Warren Kelly, the grim and duty-bound commander of a dying magical kingdom, Alexandra finds herself a prisoner of prophecy. To the last defenders of Elysia, she is the "Catalyst," a living weapon foretold to save their world from the Hegemony’s soul-draining machines. Trapped between a tyrant who wants to exploit her power and a commander who wants to wield it, Alexandra must master the terrifying light within her before it consumes her entirely.
As the Archon’s technological horrors close in and the true, devastating nature of his war machine is revealed, an impossible alliance forms between the fugitive and her guardian. Bound by shared duty and a connection that defies their warring worlds, they must embark on a suicidal mission into the heart of the enemy empire. For the only way to save a world from being bled dry is to sever its connection to the parasite—a feat that will demand a sacrifice greater than either of them can imagine.