by The Mystic Geek
Isadora Lenore Blackbriar is the Victorian architect behind apotheosis - the process of turning man into deity through myth. Through betrayal, she finds herself in The Underworld, while the men she loves are locked in an eternal battle that moves the seasons. Refusing to be reborn, Isadora spends the next several decades building a cthonic steampunk necropolis. But when Echo, a witch who broke time itself to escape erasure, brings word that the Oak King is planning his final move to draw her out, Isadora must choose: reincarnate into a world where her possessive ex has become a god, or let reality collapse into his authoritarian dream. The First Witness walks the shores of the Digital Realm and discovers two crystaline corpses in the water - the shattered remains of the Holly King, killed on the spring equinox in a divine assassination that will birth new gods and tear the Veil wide open. When magic goes public, and fascism wears a crown of oak leaves, the only thing more dangerous than destiny is trying to break it. As visible magic returns to the world in the wake of a god's murder - horns sprouting, wings manifesting, reality itself becoming negotiable - political forces move to register, regulate, and weaponize magical identity. Caught between past-life memories they don't understand and a future being written by prophets and autocrats, Willow and Ash must decide: are they reincarnations doomed to repeat an ancient tragedy, or can two children born at the hinge of a new millennium rewrite the ending their souls have been circling for lifetimes? THE ARCHITECT'S LEGACY weaves queer romance, antifascist resistance, and reincarnation into a gorgeously dark urban fantasy where love spans centuries—and might be the trap that dooms us all.
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