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The Veil Between Flames (Release Date: 06/21/2026)

Jessica Eppard — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:01:56 -0400

Book one of the Heartspire Trilogy.

On the day an Unseelie princess is meant to wed a Seelie prince—and bind two warring courts—Princess Calypso burns her vows and vanishes into the mists of the Veilborder.

Disguised among smugglers and miracle‑hunters, she finds the one thing a crown never gave her: choice. But when storms begin tearing the Convergence Lands apart, whispers rise that the missing bride has doomed the world.

Prince Atreus, heir to the sunlit Seelie court, never wanted a marriage forged in politics. When Calypso runs, he goes after her—not to drag her back, but to keep a fragile peace from shattering. Incognito and at odds, the runaway princess and the prince who should have been her enemy collide where light and shadow meet.

Together they uncover a myth older than their kingdoms, a magic that answers only to consent, and a fire that is neither day nor night. To save their realms, they must choose unity freely—or watch the world split for good.

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The Crown of Dawn and Dusk (Release Date: to be determined)

Jessica Eppard — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:10:03 -0400

Book two of the Heartspire Trilogy.

Peace was only the first battle.

With the Heartspire stabilized, Calypso and Atreus are the living bridge between Seelie light and Unseelie shadow—adored by the Convergence and feared by two uneasy courts. Power makes enemies. A Seelie coup fractures the sunlit court. An Unseelie usurper raises a rebel army. And from legend steps a relic with a single purpose: the Crown of Dawn and Dusk, forged to control unity magic—or end it.

Dragged home by duty and hunted by zealots, Calypso must face the kingdom that once caged her. Imprisoned “for his safety,” Atreus must defy the throne he was born to serve. When a vision shows one crowned and the other erased, love becomes a weapon every faction wants to wield.

To stop a war and keep their bond from becoming a cage, the heirs of flame and frost must refuse the roles written for them and bind the Crown not to a person, but to the land itself—even if it costs them the very magic that made them legends.

Political romantasy, knife‑edge stakes, and a love that chooses partnership over prophecy.

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The Song of the Silver Flame (Release Date: to be determined)

Jessica Eppard — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:13:04 -0400

Book three of the Heartspire Trilogy.

Legends wake. So do consequences.

The Crown is broken. The Heartspire sings. Across Aeltheryn, magic mutates—Seelie light darkens, Unseelie frost glows, and Mirrorkin children wield gifts no lore can name. From the Spire’s ashes rises a new power: the Silver Flame, neither day nor night—and every faction wants it.

A fervent cult would force the Flame into a living vessel. Seelie purists plot to claim it for a “pure” heir. Unseelie hardliners vow to smother it in shadow. Caught between worship and war, Calypso and Atreus struggle to remain human in a world determined to make them gods.

When the Silver Flame is stolen and a child pays the price, the heirs return to the Heartspire ruins for one last choice: seize divinity and lose each other, or teach creation itself a different song.

In a finale of myth and intimacy, they risk their power to remake the Weave—not as rulers, but as partners—so the world can belong to everyone.

Epic romantasy with emotional catharsis, found‑family stakes, and a love that ends as it began: with a choice.

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