A Trilogy in Three Books
The Glasslight
In a world without a sun, the light is the dead — crystallized, hoarded, and burned. And the light is going out.
Book One — The Salt Child — complete & free · Prologue + 23 chapters + Epilogue · 70k words
The One Idea
When a person dies, their memories crystallize into glass — and glass is the only thing in this sunless world that gives light.
Cities huddle around Wells sunk into the graves of the long dead, mining the bright compressed memory of the forgotten like coal. The rich pour in their glassed ancestors and become almost more than human; the poor sell their own pasts for bread until nothing is left but a body — a Hollow, biddable and blank. The powerful are made of stolen memory. The powerless are emptied to light their halls.
And now the glass is failing. Archives that burned for centuries gutter and go dark. The great Beacons dim. The Dark between the cities grows, and something worse than forgetting moves in it. They call it the Fading — and the powers of the world would rather burn everything than admit why it is happening.
Into this comes a girl from the bottom of the world who can do the impossible: she can make light from what everyone else calls lost.
The Three Books
One girl. Three powers. The last of the light.
A self-contained story in each book; one mythic turn across the trilogy.
The Salt Child
A girl who can wake dead light is dragged out of the gutter into a war over the failing world — and learns, at a terrible cost, what she is.
The Hollow Crown
The houses go to war over the last bright Wells while the Dark closes in, and she must choose what kind of power she will be.
The Last Light
The truth of the Fading is revealed, and the world must decide what it is willing to remember — and to forget — in order to live.
Begin in the dark.
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