A Roman-inspired fantasy serial
OF MILK AND BLOOD
They called her a vessel. She became a weapon.
In an empire where magic is passed through a mother’s milk, every enchantress must give the realm a daughter. The milk-drop pendant at their throats is a promise, not a choice.
Lárega wears the gold. She keeps the law. She serves as the Empire’s highest restorativa, healing even the empress herself.
Until she births a forbidden son.
Now marked a fugitive, Lárega flees to the borderlands to save her child from death—and runs into a lawless land of gladiators, black market milk, and enslaved wet nurses.
As her son begins to manifest a dangerous magic long suppressed by the sacred order of sorceresses, hunters close in from all directions. Imperial inquisitors track her footsteps. Power-hungry warlords seek to exploit her child’s gift. And the ghosts of her past draw ever closer.
Once trained to serve, Lárega now dares to defy. In the blood-stained sands of the borderlands, a mother’s desperate love transforms into rebellion’s sharpest blade. And with it, she will carve a new future from the ashes of an empire set to burn.
Because her destiny wasn’t a daughter. It was him.
“I was trained to restore what is broken. No one warned me that would include myself.”
Larega Mirvaeth
Restorativa of the Sanctum Matarae
Lárega was born into the noble House Miraveth—but not without scandal. When her parents were accused of disloyalty to the Empire, they gave her to the Sanctum Matarae to protect their name and honor. The Sanctum renamed her Mirvaeth—a slight change to mark a new beginning and quietly sever her from her past.
Dutiful and compassionate, Lárega grew up steeped in ritual and purpose. She was trained to channel her magic through resonance and became one of the Empire’s most gifted healers.
As a high-ranking restorativa, Lárega was expected to birth a daughter who would carry on her power. Instead, she gave birth to a forbidden son.
Now, she finds herself torn between the Empire that raised her and the child that could destroy it. Confident and composed on the outside, Lárega is beginning to question everything she was taught.
Immerse yourself as you read
OFFICIAL PLAYLIST
Music sets the mood for my writing and steeps me in the world. That’s why I create playlists for every story I write. This soundtrack belongs to Lárega. You’ll feel her journey from Sanctum sister to borderlands fugitive to a woman in love to a mother fighting for freedom. Listen while you read or anytime you want an escape.