Rooklight
Rooklight
A series by KT Owen
The world is stranger than you think. And it is watching you back.
So you're here for the magic school. The towers, the wands, the chosen one. Surprise.
There are four people living in my head, and I spent nineteen years thinking that made me crazy. Turns out it makes me valuable. Valuable is worse — crazy, they leave you alone. I work at a diner. Worked. Past tense. It's complicated. Now I'm in a house that tried to eat me, learning I'm something called Celati, and the people who burn houses like this one have started looking for me. No wands. No sorting ceremony. Just me, the four of them, and a family I finally have that the world can now take away. I don't know how this ends. But I know how it starts.
I blew up a diner kitchen and ran into the snow with no coat. A woman who runs hot enough to bend the air found me, wrote an address on my palm in ash, and told me to find the red door. The door opened like a mouth. The house has opinions. And the four voices I spent my whole life hiding? Turns out they have names. Turns out they're worth the war that's coming for all of us.
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The Houses have always asked the same question: when will the Domus actually protect us? Book Two goes looking for the answer.
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The title is a promise. It gets kept.
Coming soonThe World
People whose magic lives inside them, in forms that don't fit anyone's idea of how magic should work. For Tess, it's four voices — the splinters. Sharp, smooth, small, and heavy. They argue. They protect. Somewhere along the way, they became people.
Twelve Houses from Portland to the Yukon. Sanctuaries — and alive. Doors that open like mouths, walls with opinions, radiators that hum lullabies, nineteen ghosts who never left because there's still work to do. A House chooses who gets in.
They have been hunting Celati for centuries. People whose abilities don't fit are catalogued, studied, and burned out. They don't want Tess dead. They want to study her first. That is the worse half.
Tuta, Vela, Ignia, Mia. Four voices Tess could silence and finally be normal — except by the time she learns their names, they aren't voices anymore. They're the family she was told to be ashamed of.
The Celati World