Perpetura Series

A painter's hands close over a brush he uses only on the dead. He is about to paint a living noblewoman in Joseon Korea, 1742, and something in the room already feels wrong.

That is where Perpetura starts. It does not stay there.

Book One carries three women across three centuries. Hyunjae has built her life on perfect order, and one glance breaks it. Reine is the most looked-at woman in Belle Époque Paris and the least seen, and she paints in private work that nobody is allowed to see. Liuyan crosses Tang Dynasty China alone, a blade for hire who has spent years being useful to people who never learn her name.

Book Two moves to Singapore, now, and to Vienna, 1887. One woman is unremarkable by design, and also the commander of the most feared faction in the most complex game anyone has built. The other is a watchmaker's daughter who has spent her life taking one feeling apart to find out what makes it run.

Every story is complete on its own. Read in order, something else surfaces: a feeling that arrives in each of these lives, in each of these centuries, and that none of these women can name. Neither will I.

Mature romance by Lacunae. Contains explicit sexual content, and in Book Two depictions of abduction, captivity, drugging and coercive relationship dynamics. Intended for readers 18+.