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The wind has always spoken. She is only just beginning to hear it.
Themes: Gift as burden · perception vs. trust · political awakening · grief.
For readers of: Leigh Bardugo, V.E. Schwab, and Frances Hardinge.
Vivienne Arquette is beginning her final year at Aetheris Academy with one goal: graduate, and finally leave the mountain behind. Everything went… alright, until her gift awakens — the ability to see straight through people's masks, the truth of what they feel bleeding into the air around them in vibrant colors carried by the wind. It should feel like power. Instead, it feels like a curse she can't turn off, because seeing that someone is lying isn't the same as being allowed to say so.
She uses it anyway. Beneath the growing famine, the storms that shouldn't exist, and deaths that don't add up, a pattern starts to take shape. The more she follows it, the more certain she becomes: this isn't misfortune. Something is behind it, and it's only getting worse.
Caiden warns her that the truth could get her killed. He isn't wrong to. But Vivienne already knows exactly what silence costs. She's watched it happen through her father. Because as a scribe's daughter, you hear and see things that aren't meant for you, but you're not allowed to speak them out loud. Ever. Now that she's seen the truth, she can't choose safety — not when staying quiet means letting the innocent suffer.
Prism of the Wind is the first book in The Aeonveil Chronicles, a five-book epic fantasy series set in the Victorian-era world of Elyndar — where the wall between the world she knows and something far older is starting to crack, and Vivienne may be the only one who can see it happening.
Releasing 2 November 2026
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"It's not a weakness to acknowledge your limits."— Caiden Galecrest
The key players of Book One, as you first encounter them.
A final-year student at Aetheris Academy and the story's narrator. She perceives emotional currents as visible color — a gift the Academy has no category for. Academically sharp, practically unreliable, and done pretending the colors aren't real.
A returning student, cousin to the High Lord of Aestas, newly back from a year in Chordalia. His command of the wind is unusual — he moves with the air rather than subduing it. Quieter than Vivienne expected, and reluctantly compelling.
Vivienne's closest friend and roommate, a painter of exceptional talent. Empathetic, gifted, and warm — the person Vivienne trusts most, and perhaps the person she reads least correctly.
Heir to Wrenford Auronautics, which operates the realm's Zephyr Lift transport network. Sceptical, precise, and privately principled — a steadying presence in Vivienne's circle.
The emotional heart of the friend group. Dramatic, warm, and fiercely loyal — the one who says aloud what the others are only feeling.
A student finishing her education, formally promised to the High Lord's household. She commands the academy's social elite with effortless authority — strategic, capable, and more perceptive than most give her credit for.
Peripheral at first, then suddenly central as graduation nears. He commands attention with composed authority — and when Vivienne finally reads his colors, they show nothing where warmth should be. Then, briefly, amber.
"Being right isn't the same as having the right."From the manuscript
Ebook & paperback · 2 November 2026
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