K.A. Colgan

Serotiny

Exiled from Veridian Deep, Kaelia is a paradox: an elf born with fire instead of her people's life-giving water. For ten years, she has lived as a mercenary in the grey slums of Blackstone Reach, terrified of the inferno raging beneath her skin, a power that once saved her family but reduced her ancestral home to ash.

Desperate for a cure, Kaelia ventures into the Volcanic Scars, a wasteland of poison gas and molten rock. Rumour speaks of the Cinder Heart, an ancient artefact hidden within Mount Ignis's caldera, said to grant dominion over the elements. To claim the Heart, she must stop fighting the monster inside her and learn to become the forge.

Fieri

A quiet, philosophical fantasy novella about what it means to create life, and what it means to let it go.

For 248 years, Salen has walked the world with unhurried patience. A maker who mends broken things, asks impossible questions, and travels everywhere with a mechanical hound whose chest holds a mystery he cannot solve. Salen built the hound. He did not build what lives inside him.

What is the difference between a sufficiently complex mechanism and something that experiences? That question has consumed Salen for a century and a half. When rumours surface of a sealed vault deep in the western wastes, built by an ancient maker who may have asked the same question before him, Salen does what he has always done: he walks toward the answer.