The Gem Between Worlds

When a Relic Whisperer pulls the forbidden Aethercore from a dead temple, the gem follows her home… then rips her through the Veil into Nyros, a realm of ash, stormlight, and hungry shadows. There she collides with Kael Ashmour, a prince branded by a bloodline curse and the same gem’s relentless pull. He needs the Aethercore destroyed before the widening rift devours both worlds. She may be the only one it will obey.

Hunted by wraithbound creatures and watched by forces older than prophecy, Calla and Kael race across cursed ruins, glittering courts, and dream-stitched thresholds to learn why the gem chose her—and what it demands in return. Every step tightens the bond between them: dangerous, magnetic, and forbidden in a land where trust is rarer than magic.

To save Ithariel and Nyros, they’ll have to bargain with oracles, walk the knife-edge between waking and dream, and face a choice that can shatter hearts as easily as realms.

The Gem Between Worlds is a romantic fantasy of portal-crossing peril, cursed destiny, and slow-burn heat—where saving the realms may cost the one thing they can’t afford to lose.