This is the story of Professor Edgar O. Duvencrune-or rather, the story of what came before.
The Long Night began when the Sun, the moons, and the stars vanished from the sky. Magic began to die. Faeries were hunted. Mages scattered across a collapsing world, clinging to the fading prophecy of the Summerqueen's birth.
Meanwhile, the Winterqueen grows stronger with every passing Winter.
Orlo Yeso Sternach was never meant to be a hero. His magic is quiet-dream-walking, decoding ancient spellwork, glimpsing cracks in reality. Worse still, he's Hexed-bound by a love spell created by his father, a spell that shaped his fate without consent.
But Orlo carries a truth even he doesn't fully understand.
He's not just surviving the Long Night.
He's lived it before. Over and over.
He's chronicling it. Rewriting it.
And searching for the moment time first fractured-when the End of Time began.