Leona Caelestis

“Fourthly, and lastly, the dawn is called the end of the night and the beginning of the day, or the mother of the sun, and so our dawn at its greatest redness is the end of all darkness and putting to flight of night, of the long-drawn-out winter wherein he who walketh, if he take not heed, shall stumble.”

—Aurora Consurgens

A Revolutionary Myth

Rebecca—a Thai-British analyst climbing London’s corporate ladder—believes she’s found a future in her enigmatic mentor, Frederick. Instead, she’s violently remade into a deformed Tumulari vampire, and thrust into a hidden world ruled by the ironclad Pax Sanguinis.

Promised restoration through the alchemical elixir Azoth’s Kiss, she enters a dazzling but toxic covenant, the Children of Luke—only to learn her “salvation” is another form of captivity.

As she flees and uncovers a scheme that culls mortals and immortals alike through one unassuming supplement, her struggle shifts from survival to rebellion. But every act of defiance is shadowed by Frederick’s obsession, and the weight of futility grows with each sacrifice.

Rebecca must choose: accept salvation on her abuser’s terms—or step into the storm and become a force no one can control.