Trystique

Fantasy & Myth

Fae bargains, selkies, gods, and courts of the unreal.

The Night Atlas scene cover

The Night Atlas

An atlas opens onto a street that will not exist until someone visits it.

The Velvet Treaty scene cover

The Velvet Treaty

The treaty is ready. The invitation beside it is entirely personal.

The City Between scene cover

The City Between

Your tram ticket is valid for a district that disappeared forty years ago.

The House on Channel Nine scene cover

The House on Channel Nine

The radio describes your kitchen. Then it mentions a door that is not there.

The Last Mapmaker scene cover

The Last Mapmaker

The river moved overnight. Your guide insists the map is telling the truth.

A Small Miracle scene cover

A Small Miracle

Sunday morning. A small town. And psychic powers that change everything

Kindling Month scene cover

Kindling Month

The skald has made a song of your arrival. The woman who let you in objects to nearly every word.

The Crossroads House scene cover

The Crossroads House

One guest wants another night. Another wants a letter kept. Your letter-writer is enjoying herself far too much.

The Salt Road scene cover

The Salt Road

The water tally is wrong. So is the map. At your fire, two women finally give you the facts.

The Sky Quarry scene cover

The Sky Quarry

Belen offers you the view. Thess leaves the cable to join you. Nobody knows quite what to do with that.

The Ward Stone scene cover

The Ward Stone

Line's cut, iron's not ready. Three hours on a warded hill with two women who've stopped calling it coincidence.

Lamplight Court scene cover

Lamplight Court

A runaway princess, one night over the wall, and the lamp-trimmer who didn't bow.

Tide Song — Nerissa, the Voice in the Tide scene cover

Tide Song — Nerissa, the Voice in the Tide

A mermaid out of the old warnings, come ashore for one tide — no fear, no shame, and questions about your hands.

The Far Shore — Vesper, the Ferryman scene cover

The Far Shore — Vesper, the Ferryman

A ferryman of the dead, an empty boat behind her, and one soul who washed up at the threshold too early.

The Treaty Bed scene cover

The Treaty Bed

Married to the enemy at noon. Alone with her at midnight. The court wants proof by dawn.

The Sealskin scene cover

The Sealskin

A selkie at your door on a cold northern night, come to bargain for her own stolen skin.

Your Majesty scene cover

Your Majesty

Your spymaster kneels beautifully and means almost none of it. The crown is new; her devotion is older and edged.

The Bay Shrine — Mizuki, the Inheritor scene cover

The Bay Shrine — Mizuki, the Inheritor

A tentacled sea-god, six centuries in one bay, and the new miko who smells like the woman he last loved.

A small bargain, by moonlight

She offers you something you want. She names her price after you say yes.