Petition and Supplicant (Collector's Edition)

Hand signed by author, reversible dust jackets, custom endpapers and art The Resonance Crystal Legacy is an adult epic fantasy series about love, debt, ambition, and family. It takes place in an East Asian-inspired setting where emotions give you power, and reexamines classic epic fantasy tropes through the lens of an immigrant perspective. Petition: In the Dominion of Aleznuaweite, anyone can rise to the greatest heights—if they are willing to pay the price. Failure is a luxury Rahelu can’t afford. Her family sold everything, left their ancestral home, and became destitute foreigners for the sake of her resonance skills. Now she can manipulate emotional echoes to discern truth from lies, conjure the past, and even foretell the future. But an act of petty revenge by her rival destroys her chance at joining one of the great Houses. Desperate to prove her family’s sacrifices were not in vain, Rahelu calls upon the most dangerous magic of all—altering fortune. A slight twist of fate is enough to restore her way forward…with deadly consequences she never bargained for. The Houses make a pawn of her in their bitter struggle for control of the Dominion. A shadowy cult grows ever closer to completing an ancient ritual. And Rahelu discovers that fulfilling her oath to her family might come at the cost of her mother’s life. Supplicant: In the depths of the Endless Gate, anyone can become a god—if they are willing to pay the price Common-born Rahelu can’t afford principles: she had to sell her loyalty to the highest bidder in the Dominion to save her destitute family. Now she must work with her scheming House-born peers and her most detested rival to carry out her secretive Elder’s dubious orders: steal an artifact that can supposedly turn any desire into reality before the Dominion’s enemies can do the same. But when control of the future itself is the prize, temptation beckons. Even Rahelu, who has never dreamed of anything more than a debt-free life of simple comforts, is swayed. No blood feud is too old to set aside; no alliance is too unsavory and no method too ruthless to contemplate. As foreign spies and treasure-seeking raiders close in, House politics and hidden motives have set Rahelu and her teammates at each others’ throats. All while a dying cult manipulates events from the shadows…and an ancient power stirs inside the heart of the Endless Gate. Torn between her own desires and consumed by guilt over the blood accumulating on her hands, Rahelu’s oaths force her to a devastating choice: who else is she willing to sacrifice in the name of success?