Aether Tales: The Ashes of Asphodel

In the Victorian society of Lithmora, a special group of people known as the “Gifted” possess magical powers derived from one of ten distinct “paths” which they progress over time by acquiring more strength, each new level of their path granting them greater and stranger abilities. This is the “World of Two Moons”, one gray as dust, the other a strange aqua blue-green. Full Synopsis: Lord Kresimir “Kres” is a type of gifted known as a “summoner” capable of calling upon entities from other worlds in order to complete a variety of tasks. He is an enigmatic and mysterious count who has spent years studying gifted and the paths from which their powers derive as well as the mysterious substance “mist”. Selen is an orphaned runaway who has grown up on the crime ridden streets of lower Asphodel, she recently discovered her powers as a gifted when she meets Kres by accident in a seedy part of town as he is tracking down a man named “Oleg” who Selen herself is running from. Although she tries to hide them, Selen’s gifted powers are unlike anything Kres has ever seen and he deems that she does not belong to any of the original 10 pathways but rather is a new type of gifted altogether. ——————————————————————————— The Ashes of Asphodel is the first novel in the Aether Tales series.