Adult siblings Cascade and Zephyr hustle, gamble, and outrun authorities to keep their failing courier business and their ramshackle airship, the Transcendence, aloft between islands in the sky. The ship is Cascade’s pride and joy, flaking rust and all, because it’s the only chance she’s got to make her way in the world due to a hereditary lack of magic. Unable to afford another wind technician, Zephyr powers the ship with his own magic. He could never leave his sister grounded, but the commitment is keeping him from starting a life with his boyfriend, and the guilt is gnawing at Cascade. 

The solution comes in the form of an offer Cascade overhears in a seedy tavern. To Zephyr's pleasant surprise, the task doesn't even sound illegal. That is, until they learn that their mysterious client has sinister motives. In even further over their heads than usual, the siblings scramble to outwit their client, and Cascade is forced to grapple with her reliance on her brother, his boyfriend's simmering resentment for her, and her own self-worth in the face of a growing regime that aims to exterminate her. 

A thousand years before the events of Transcendence, the Alaerian Empire is a sprawling paradise for the elite magic wielding class. 

Gellert, the son of the Emperor, is devastated when his father announces a plan to name Gellert’s younger sister the heir ascendant. But after a fluke success, he's convinced a palace attendant, Elowyn, is the key to the new form of enchanting he's been trying to hone for the last decade—a magic he believes could propel the empire into a new age of prosperity. But magic wielders have never been kind to the non-magic peasantry, and Elowyn is keen to stay out of the way, even after Gellert comes desperately banging at her door. 

Then her world shifts in an instant. Suddenly, Gellert’s promise of a better future lights a fire within her. If they can truly harness enchanting, they both know the world will change forever—and Elowyn realizes she could be in the unique position to twist that change in favor of those who have, for centuries, lived, worked, and died, for the pleasure and luxury of the wielders and the crown. 

A generation ship?

A burger flipper with a dream?

A sapphic romance?

An alien planet?

Messy relationships?

A plant mom?

Science... magic?

And a big secret...

I honestly have no real idea, but we'll see where it goes! Definitely not hard sci-fi. Hopefully still pops of humor and shenanigans amongst some characters you'll love and root for.