Fated by Fiction

What if the stories you loved could pull you inside their pages—and refuse to let you go? On her twenty-fifth birthday, Ember Nightshade vanishes from her coastal hometown, dragged into the very fairy tale her grandmother penned decades ago. Left behind: only shimmering droplets of iridescent ink and a world that suddenly feels far too mundane. But Ember's disappearance is no accident. She's descended from the Librokin fae—an ancient lineage of storytellers whose dangerous magic has been deliberately suppressed. Now, the golden patterns that have always graced her skin when she reads are glowing with unmistakable purpose, revealing a gift that shouldn't exist: the power to travel between literary worlds at will. As Ember navigates crystalline seas on dragonback and walks beside queens in impossible kingdoms, she discovers she's a narrative-weaver—one of the rarest abilities among her kind. Each world she enters ripples and shifts beneath her presence, responding to her very existence. But she's not alone in the space between fiction and reality. Theo Morgan, with his silver-streaked hair and maddeningly familiar smile, appears precisely when the stories begin to fight back.