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The Thread Seers: Book One
Sixteen-year-old artist Lyra Chen charts the quiet currents between people in her notebook margins — until the graphite sparks into living light.
Recruited to Threadweaver Academy, she discovers her rare sight has a name, and that the institution sworn to protect it is failing from within as an ashen contamination drains the life from its students.
In a world woven from connection, Lyra must make an impossible choice: control, or communion.
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Excerpt · Chapter 1, “The Bridge”
The first time Lyra steadies a thread on purpose — and learns the terrifying difference between holding and taking.
Read Chapter 1She answered it with the small inner pressure she never named out loud and nudged the frayed edge toward center. The line responded instantly, too clean, like a latch that clicked shut under her thumb.
“I’m sorry,” Katie said. “Me too,” Zach said. Then he blinked at his own voice, startled. The apology didn’t sound like his.
Relief hit first. Then wrongness: thin and metallic, a coin in her palm she hadn’t paid for. The line had steadied, but it hadn’t chosen to.