The Luminous Ones

The sun hasn't risen in a hundred years. The world is shrouded in perpetual darkness, its cities reliant on government control and artificial light. But some children are born different. Their eyes glow softly in the dark, a living reminder of what has been lost. They are called the Luminaries. The government considers them a threat. For a dangerous secret lies within their light: memories of a time when sunlight touched the earth. Elara Raine is tasked with monitoring these glowing children and reporting those who "lose their light" to the authorities as part of her work for the Department of Regulation. She believes she is protecting society until she is assigned to observe a boy named Solan, whose radiance surpasses all others. Through him, Elara begins to see impossible visions, memories that aren't her own, of oceans and skies and the warmth of a sun long gone. The deeper she delves, the more a buried truth is revealed: the sun isn't dead... it was stolen. Now, hunted by the very government she once served, Elara must choose between a world that fears the light and a world that desperately needs it. The Luminaries is a breathtaking dystopian fantasy that explores rebellion, memory, and hope, asking what it means to remember warmth in a world of darkness, and the human cost of bringing back the dawn.