The Secret of Lumoria [Book 1 Finished, Book 2 starting soon.]

Imone comes to Vellaris to disappear. She leaves her former life behind and slips into the largest city in the known realms—a place where coin decides law, and mercenary companies handle the violence everyone else pretends not to see. The Valiants take her in: a small, long-standing crew that survives by staying useful, disciplined, and unremarkable by design. Imone tries to make it work. She buries her past. She learns the company’s rhythms. She plays the part of “ordinary” so well she almost believes it. But the past is patient. The more she bonds with the Valiants, the harder it becomes to keep her walls intact—especially when one of them keeps slipping past her defenses: a quiet fighter with an unsettling intuition, disarmingly earnest and fearless about closeness, devoted in a way that makes Imone’s chest tighten—and far too good at noticing when Imone is lying, even to herself. Except she isn’t alone. Prim—a second soul—shares Imone’s thoughts and instincts, sometimes lending certainty where Imone has only fear… and sometimes moving her hands before she decides to. It twists her magic into something rare, something wrong—something that can’t be made “normal,” no matter how carefully she tries to behave. And the work doesn’t stay simple. The Valiants’ contracts pull them into the orbit of institutions that prefer their problems handled quietly—people with money, influence, and reasons to keep certain truths contained. Patterns emerge. Questions that don’t have official answers. The sense that someone is shaping events from the inside, and that she is being measured, tested, and steered. Book 1 follows Imone’s attempt to rebuild a life inside a found family while her buried history resurfaces—through scars she can’t explain, memories she can barely face, and a promise she made long ago… and the cost of reaching the truth.