The Starless Tide

The stone that bound them together has gone cold. And someone did it on purpose. Cassia and Eronian barely had time to breathe after outrunning the Ondrian Court before something older and far more dangerous found them. Across the Veil Reaches, First Court ruins are going silent one by one, and the people connected to them are vanishing, losing their minds, or dying. Someone is collecting the old magic, piece by piece, and Cassia, the woman the ancient binding stone chose for reasons nobody has fully explained, is the last piece they need.
Following a trail that leads to a forgotten world at the edge of known space, Cassia and Eronian find a woman who has spent forty years doing terrible things for a reason that turns out to be heartbreakingly human, a community of guardians who never left, and a sealed gate that has been waiting three centuries for someone with the right kind of soul to open it. The old magic has a name for what Cassia is.
It always has. She just was not ready to hear it yet. The Starless Tide is the second novel in the Starlit Realms series, picking up immediately after The Glasswing Crown. Romantic, fast-moving, and built for readers who want their fantasy with real stakes and a love story that keeps getting better.