A Glass of Twin Stars

Branded a traitor and known to every Warden alive, Liora follows the failing sky inward to the Mirror Court — a House that trusts no face it cannot place. To pass its gates, she and Aurelian walk in as a betrothed pair, sharing a chamber, a borrowed name, and a lie that keeps catching like something real.

But the Dark wears faces too. In the court’s doubled light, Liora hears a voice unsettlingly like her own — one that does not threaten, but whispers that they are the same light, split in two.