She woke in the frozen desert with no memories.
No name. No powers.
Only three words echoing in her mind: Follow the Call.
Tori Sable should be immortal. She should be able to reshape Matter by thought. Instead, she has no memory of who she is, no powers, and no way to heal. Something was taken from her — and she intends to get it back.
When she is found and brought into Erastasis—an empire of immortal soldiers on the brink of war—Tori is enrolled in their military academy, desperate to reclaim the abilities that were taken from her. Yet she carries a rank she can no longer live up to, a past she can’t remember, and for reasons no one will explain, the empire’s most powerful people seem invested in her recovery—and terrified of what she might become.
Then she meets Zachary Triton.
Commander of Erastasis’s most powerful Legion and the most lethal Manipulator the empire has ever produced, Triton is the one tasked with helping Tori recover what she has lost. Devastatingly attractive, dangerously magnetic, and so far above her station that wanting him is reckless. But the pull between them is undeniable, and beneath that impenetrable façade, she can see it—there’s something he’s holding back.
As Tori fights to reclaim what was taken from her, she’ll uncover a truth that the people protecting her have buried for years—one that could determine whether Erastasis survives the war that’s already coming.
A ROMANTASY NOVEL
SLOW-BURN ROMANCE ⬥ MILITARY/MAGIC ACADEMY ⬥ FOUND FAMILY ⬥ HURT/COMFORT
STOLEN MEMORIES ⬥ ADULT FMC ⬥ GREEN-FLAG MMC WITH ALPHA ENERGY
Set in a modern Mediterranean world with a magic system you haven't read before.
A hot slow burn — charged, high-tension, and on the page, but the payoff is earned, not rushed. The heat builds across the series.
For fans of Fourth Wing, Crescent City, and Red Rising.
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About Vivian Lee-Lauss
It arrived on an ordinary Sunday morning. Standing at the bathroom sink, Vivian met her first character and saw the opening scenes, and by the end of that week, she'd outlined the entire seven-book world of Erastasis. Nine months later, she would quit her corporate exec job to publish the first installment: Call of Matter.
Canadian-born to Chinese immigrants, Vivian moved to Germany in her mid-twenties and built an executive career there from scratch—the one she would eventually walk away from with headhunters still circling. She lives in Munich with her Austrian husband.
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