Read one and it’s a romance. Read all five, and something else surfaces — a feeling none of them can name, and neither will I.

The collection

Five women. Five centuries.

Each story is complete on its own. They are meant to be read in this order.

Joseon Korea · 1742

A noblewoman. A forbidden glance.

Her life is built on perfect order. A painter who works only on the dead unsettles all of it with a single unfinished portrait.

Belle Époque Paris · 1893

The most seen woman in Paris. The art no one is allowed to see.

Photographed everywhere, known by no one, and hiding one painting she was never meant to reveal.

Tang Dynasty China · c. 750

A blade-for-hire. A legacy carried alone.

She crosses the empire alone, a mercenary carrying a debt that was never fully hers to pay.

Present day

Commander of an empire no one has beaten. Invisible to everyone who actually knows her.

She answers to no one, and the people standing closest to her cannot see her at all.

Vienna · 1887

She invented a way for the feeling to survive death.

She never learned how to survive her own. Her story is placed last, and it changes the four before it.

What you get

One connected book.

Length

Five complete stories · novel-length, ~93,000 words

Formats

EPUB for e-readers, plus a print-styled PDF

Read anywhere

Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, phone, tablet, or desktop

Delivery

Instant download, DRM-free, yours to keep

Content

Mature. Explicit sexual content and themes. Readers 18+

Author

Lacunae, writing literary romance across five eras

Five lives. One feeling.
$2.99.

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