The sleepy town of Lacuna hides secrets in overgrown forests and loose floorboards, and Emerence 'Em' has unwillingly stumbled onto a dangerous path of knowledge. In the house left by her passed grandmother, Em finds a book that details the history of her world before art was stolen from it a hundred years prior and how to break the curse that took it. Em's society sees creative expression as the reverence of dead gods; and the discovery of both this book and an abandoned statue in the forest is only the beginning of the unveiling of Lacuna's deadliest secrets. When Em's world is turned inside out, with both her heart and life on the line, she learns that even the forced silence of seven gods won't keep the truth from surfacing.

Publication Year: 2026