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The Chosen
Mira’s story begins in Rivenglade, where the promise of salvation becomes a struggle for freedom.
About this book
When charismatic leader Lucien Altheris arrives in Rivenglade preaching salvation through Zenith's Light, Mira Roehart finds herself trapped in a nightmare of religious extremism. Forced into marriage and stripped of everyone she loves, she must navigate systematic abuse while discovering her true Nimwe heritage and the void powers that may be her only escape.
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To the girl I once was—
Who watched her world shrink with each new rule, each forbidden question, each friend who disappeared behind walls of doctrine. Who carried secrets too heavy for young shoulders and learned silence before she learned to sing.
You deserved meadows to run through, not careful steps on narrow paths. You deserved laughter that bubbled up freely, not words weighed and measured before they could escape. You deserved a childhood painted in every color, not just the approved shades of obedience.
This book is for you—for every question you swallowed, every doubt you hid, every time you felt the walls closing in and wondered if you were the only one who couldn't breathe. Your questions were not sins. They were the cracks where the light got in.
This is for all of us who grew up in worlds that grew smaller, who lost ourselves before we knew who we were, who were taught that our voices were dangerous and our thoughts were weapons to be feared.
To everyone who was told to be quiet about the things that happened in the dark, about the truths that make others uncomfortable, about the pain prettied up as providence—
This book is our rebellion. Our refusal. Our roar.
May we be loud about the things they taught us to whisper.
May we question until the walls come down.
May we reclaim every stolen piece of ourselves.
And may our younger selves know, finally, that they were never alone.
— For the child I was, and for all those still finding their way out of the silence
