A taut, inventive thriller where myth collides with modern danger.
Kingston crafts a taut, genre-bending thriller where contemporary peril collides with ancient myth. Forced into Witness Protection as a child, Sara rebuilt her life on secrets—until the cartel comes back to finish the job. Africa, her brilliant but socially isolated neighbor, knows only one way to save her: pull Sara into a brutal first-century world where Africa is a feared warrior. Can two girls survive when both realities turn lethal?
Kingston balances the immediacy of cartel danger with immersive historical fantasy, avoiding escapism in favor of moral consequence. The novels’ fantasy world avoids romanticism: Kingston treats Roman occupation and Celtic resistance as harsh, lived conditions. Violence, belief, and leadership are treated with seriousness, and the friendship at the novel’s core remains complex and unsentimental. Sara’s unwilling role as a Druid exposes the gap between control and meaning, reinforcing the novel’s central question of who is seen as powerful—and who is merely labeled so. Smart, ambitious, and emotionally grounded, the novel will appeal to readers drawn to speculative fiction that interrogates identity, trauma, and the cost of survival.
Pub date December 1, 2025
ASIN B0G2XBTSTW
Price $20.99 (USD) Hardcover, $13.99 Paperback, $3.99 Kindle edition
