Split Divinity Threads Book One: Unchained Threads of Light and Shadow

In the holy city of Luminara, the Divinity Caste has ruled for a thousand years. They pair light-touched and shadow-touched children at birth, binding them with a sacred thread. The light ones serve the priests. The shadow ones are locked away, harvested for their power. No one questions the system. No one remembers a time before it.

Elara is a light-touched acolyte, days from her final ordination. Kael is the shadow prisoner she has been assigned to guard. The thread between them has been dormant for years — until the night Elara touches the cell wall and feels his pain as if it were her own. Until she hears his voice in her head, asking the question no shadow-touched has ever dared ask: What if the light is lying?

What follows is a tense, atmospheric prison break and a flight across a continent that hunts them both. The priests want them back. The shadow rebels want Kael as a weapon. And the thread between them — the thing that was supposed to make them obedient — is growing into something neither of them was prepared for: trust. Then choice. Then something that might be love, if they can survive long enough to feel it.