A Glass of Twin Stars

By Edward Crewe

One court down. Seven left to light. And the only way into the next one is to become someone she's not.

Branded a traitor by the order that raised him and feared by the very court she saved, Liora is no longer a lamp-girl - she is the one soul in five hundred years who can wake a dying star, and every Warden alive now knows her face.

The map of the failing sky leads inward, to the Mirror Court, where no Starborn is born alone and no outsider is ever sure whose face they are truly speaking to. It is the one court that might hold the next dying star - and the one court that trusts no stranger who arrives out of the dark with a convenient story.

So Liora and Aurelian will give them a better one. They will walk through the mirror-gates as a betrothed noble pair, deep in love, with forged papers and a borrowed name - two enemies who can barely admit they're allies, now sharing a chamber, a story, and a lie that keeps catching in private like a hand that forgets it was only acting.

But the Dark wears faces too. Something has slipped into the Mirror Court behind a stolen twin, and it is reaching for the failing star - and for Liora. And in the doubled light of a court built on deception, she is about to hear, for the very first time, a voice that sounds unsettlingly like her own. It does not threaten her. It tells her they are the same light, split in two. It tells her she will understand, before the end.

The slow burn deepens. The lie grows teeth. And the thing at the heart of the sky finally says her name.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H516F1R3
• ISBN13: 9798181280045
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"