FEATURING:

- Sapphic Gothic Fantasy!

- Disabled Healer MC!

- Hot Tattooed Masc Lady Knight Love Interest!

- Learning Revenge is Better than Obedience!

- Finding Yourself Under an Oppressive Church!

Spice Rating: ★★☆☆☆

RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVES:

- All-new dust jacket illustrated by @MaeOwl!

- Cover and interior design by @ManicFemme!

- Illustrated hardcase design by @C.E.Illo!

- Illustrated art endpapers by @CharlieArpie!

- Printed edges designed by @MaeOwl!

- Signed by the Author!

Synopsis: In a city clinging to light during an age of darkness, all healer Ophelia wants is for a Saint to finally claim her. Since being brought to Lumendei as an orphan nearly thirty years ago, she’s worked tirelessly to prove herself worthy of the Mysteries.

When she’s tasked with caring for an injured prisoner, Ophelia sees the perfect way to prove she’s ready for her Sainting. The prisoner is none other than the Umbra Knight—the most dangerous warrior of Lumendei’s sworn enemy, the Sepulchyre. If she can save the Umbra Knight’s soul by converting her to the Church of the Host, the Saints will surely fight amongst themselves to claim Ophelia.

But the disarmingly beautiful and undeniably deadly knight insists Ophelia’s beloved God is a murderous liar and her adopted city is built on blackened bones. It’s easy to dismiss as blasphemy, until Lumendei’s gilded secrets begin to tumble from their hiding places and Ophelia herself uncovers a conspiracy ... Then she’s forced to consider the idea that the Umbra Knight—might be telling the truth, and that saving the alluring knight’s soul is the least of her concerns.

Rep: wlw, autistic, physically disabled queer mc w/ anxiety & PTSD, masc lesbian li, BIPOC scs

CWs: Ableism, Catholicism/Christianity, religious trauma, cult brainwashing, homophobia, depression and suicidal ideation, non-consenusal sexual touch, coercion into self-harm, mild to moderate descriptions of wounds and injuries, self-flagellation (implied and depicted), sexism and gendered violence (implied and referenced in dialogue)