Amalai lives fully in the sensuality of this breathing earth. One day the rustling leaves lead her to a mysterious stranger, to a song of fay…

But then a youth is found dead in the forest. Is a demon threatening the town? Already the soldiers start marching, foreboding a return of warlords and violence. But Amalai’s friends will not take it. They will defend the hard-won freedom of convivial life. With force? Or precisely not with force, but with powers enchantingly different?

A young rebel and a misplaced prince, a no-nonsense magician and a shimmering dreamer band together to save the town, facing an uncertain truth full of fear and love and the beauty of starlight…

This book is for you if you like:
– the wind whispering in the willows
– non-violent activism
– delicious baths
– transformational justice
– doubtful encounters with the otherworld
– a queer-friendly, sex-positive, diverse setting
– a magic mirror showing new visions of an old world

Windmills, community spirit, rooftop gardens – that is what young magician Enim knows. But when he travels out to the mountains, misery hits him in the face. Before he knows it, Enim gets adopted into a found family that is determined to take on the powerful owners, free the miners, and bring on a good life for all. The exact steps to saving the world are still a little unclear. But that won’t stop anyone from rushing ahead!

Between the politics of the capital and the instruments of magic, a tangled love-tie and a popular uprising, their snug group of orphan kids and the inner strength to ban a demon – will they finally make it happen?

This book is for you if you like:
– a fantasy world full of conviviality
– upliftingly stubborn activism
– the quiet wisdom of mountains
– a vision of children growing up free
– wealth beyond jewels
– small furry charmers
– fantastic challenges to common thought-patterns