Fiction from beyond the charted sky.
Trence was the Magistrates' pride, their fortress in the clouds. The book opens on the day it fell.
Adalasia is a galaxy, and the Coalition has been at war across it for a thousand years. Ships sail it the way ships sail water. The distance between worlds is counted in jumps, and Book One begins at the rim, pointed inward.
The Academy on the coast, where the Cauldron names the power each cadet will carry for life.
Six years of doctrine and bladework come down to a single morning. Beyond the gates, skyships are already taking on crew. When they leave, the best of them will be aboard.
A cloaked figure trailing black and violet, and the woman in white who held the sky open beneath him.
Between them they brought Trence down out of the clouds. The Coalition has an official account of what became of him afterward. It is not the one people repeat.
Pocket cities on pillars of violet claystone, jutting out of a canyon, strung together by a single bridge of polished gold.
Cobalt foliage spills down the columns. The bridge is wide enough to walk at sunset, and they say most of the cities it threads are copies of cities from elsewhere in the galaxy, faithful ones, built a very long way from their originals.
Merova is an independent press founded to publish one kind of book: the kind you climb into.
The kind that makes you believe the world continues beyond the page, that there are roads you never traveled and lives you only glimpsed, and that finishing the story means leaving somewhere you had begun to know.
Merova LLC · Est. 2026
Book One of Adalasia is out. The paperback came on 26 July, the hardcover and the ebook on 5 August. 428 pages in paperback, 400 in the 6×9 case-bound hardcover, both set in Garamond with a Cinzel drop cap at the head of every chapter.
The press has a name, a mark, and a heading, and the first hull is in the water. Anything that follows will be announced here first.
Trence falls in the first three pages. Then a hush draws over Bacima, and two friends are late to the most important day of their lives. The Prologue and Chapter One, in full.
One letter when the next book is out. Very few in between.
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The voyage has only begun.
