Cantus Lucis

CANTUS LUCIS: A Prequel to The Lunadae Saga Before the Moon learned sorrow, the world was sung, not spoken. Selmara, youngest High Priestess in generations, serves a faith where miracles are real and the divine still answers. The Mother, a goddess whose voice once wove the world into harmony returns for a desperate prayer that pierces the Veil: the King is dying. But divine grief bends the laws that hold the world together… and Selmara is asked to help her defy them. While the city rejoices in a blinding, eternal dawn, the priesthood is divided. Between the fanatical devotion of her sisters and the warnings of a watchful skeptic, Selmara searches for a forbidden hymn said to touch the first spark of creation. What begins as an act of mercy becomes a turning point the world was never meant to survive. A miracle is witnessed. A soul is changed. A new hunger is born. Caught between blind faith and a truth that could unmake the cosmos, Selmara must decide what she is willing to sacrifice. To protect the light, she may have to master the shadows, and strike a bargain that will haunt history as the world's first heresy. Some loves should die. Some lights should fade. A song powerful enough to save a life may doom an entire world. Cantus Lucis is the tragic origin of the vampires—a story of cosmic betrayal, the hollowing weight of grace, and love that broke the stars. It is the dawning of the hunger that echoes throughout eternity in The Lunadae Saga.