Book One · An epic science-fantasy series

Neviath

Some doors change you forever.

On the last day of school, a girl is pulled out of the only world she has ever known — and into one that is quietly coming apart. This world does not need a savior. It needs someone willing to stay.

by Matthew C. Lancaster · Out now in hardback & paperback

The story

She thought the hardest part of growing up was already behind her. She was wrong.

Michelle is torn from the only world she has ever known and thrust into Neviath — a land shaped by living relics, ancient choices, and wounds that never fully healed. Survival here is not heroic. It is learned. And protection always comes at a cost.

As she travels alongside a guarded warrior with a buried past, a fierce child determined to become more than a victim, and a prophecy that no longer follows its own rules, Michelle begins to understand that this world does not need a savior. It needs someone willing to stay.

With forgotten powers awakening and the truth behind Neviath's collapse slowly emerging, she must decide who she will become — and what she is willing to lose to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Some choices cannot be undone.

The world

A world worth grieving for

Neviath is dying — and it has never been more alive. Bioluminescent forests, trees warm to the touch, vines that reach instead of grow, and two moons that have watched the world break and refuse to look away.

Two moons

They rise together over floating islands and forests that glow from within. Neviath is beautiful in the way of things that are running out of time.

Living relics

Reality-bending inheritances, passed down and never meant to be turned against one another. The world still bears the scars of what happened when they were.

A spreading Hunger

Something is unmaking Neviath from the inside — a slow, devouring emptiness that has been swallowing the world for longer than anyone still living can remember.

A light that reached Earth

Long ago, a single golden filament slipped the leash of an ancient sacrifice and drifted across the dark. It found a bloodline. It waited.

Aurinel

The Holy City — once the radiant heart of Neviath, where a King ruled a living world. Now a ruin, and a reminder of everything that was lost.

Thal'Norei

A village of platform dwellings built high among the trees — communal, watchful, and far from untouched by the troubles spreading across the land.

The shape of the world

Before Michelle, before Earth, there was a choice

The Universe is alive, and aware. Long ago it raised a King to tend a living world, and gave his children relics that could bend reality itself. They were never meant to be turned against one another.

They were. And the cost of mending what they broke was greater than any one life — but a single thread of light escaped the reckoning, crossed the dark between worlds, and came to rest in a bloodline on Earth.

Generations later, it woke. Her name is Michelle.

The heart of it

Neviath is an epic about a dying world. But underneath the relics and the ruins, it is a quieter story — about grief, about belonging, and about the families we are not born into but choose.

“For my mom. Of all the things she taught me, the most important was how to love.”

Dedication

Cover of Neviath by Matthew C. Lancaster

Neviath

by Matthew C. Lancaster · Book One of an epic science-fantasy series

A girl pulled from her world. A guarded warrior, a fierce child, and a prophecy that no longer follows its own rules. Some doors change you forever — and some choices cannot be undone.

444 pages · 6×9 · ISBN 979-8-90473-037-6

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