Twilight City: Book 1 in the Glassbound Realms Series

Lila Frost has always known exactly who she is: a snow globe keeper, guardian of the passage between the Glass Forest and the mortal world she quietly calls home. It's a small, steady kind of magic. Not the kind that changes anything. 

Then she finds a snow globe that shouldn't exist, hidden in the mortal woods. The glass is a fractured mosaic, and is pulsing with power that doesn't belong to this realm. Inside she can just make out what appears to be a city thought lost for fifty years. Her best friend Finn has been dreaming of that same city in impossible, aching detail. Unheard of for a man who doesn’t know any world but his own. When his hand meets hers on the broken glass, the cracks begin, impossibly, to heal. 

What Lila uncovers next will unravel everything she thought she understood about her friend, her power, and her place among the realms. A High Council hiding fifty years of secrets. A missing council member who never really left. A junior magician convinced the throne he wants is finally within reach — and willing to burn down a city to take it. And at the center of it all, a truth about Lila herself that even she was never meant to know. 

To save Twilight City, and Finn, Lila will have to cross into a realm split between eternal day and endless night, navigate a court built on fifty years of lies, and reckon with a gift so old and so dangerous that even the people she trusts most have been keeping it from her. 

Some secrets are buried to protect us. Others are buried because the truth was never meant to stay hidden forever.