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The Seeds of the Awakening, Book 1

The Lightning Seeds

Elemental power is her inheritance. Forgiveness is her test.

Grief is easy. Forgiveness is the hard magic, and Evangeline needs both.

Submitted to Enclave Publishing, April 2026. Awaiting response.

Sixteen-year-old Evangeline Sweet arrives in Wellington carrying grief and an inheritance she never knew existed: the Lightning Seeds, elemental air magic concealed for fifteen centuries. Three other Bearers are waiting. So is the ancient enemy who destroyed the source of their power and has been hunting what remains ever since.

Mastering the Seeds is the easy part. The hard magic, the kind that breaks cycles and defeats darkness, is forgiveness.

The Seeds of the Awakening

A four-book series. Each book follows one Bearer's story. Together they tell the story of four young people who inherit the last remnants of an ancient elemental magic in a Wellington where the hidden world of magic and the ordinary world are never far apart.

  • Book 1: The Lightning Seeds: Evangeline's story. Complete.
  • Book 2: The Rising Tide: Rua's story. In development.
  • Book 3: The Embers of Magic: Abby's story. Planned.
  • Book 4: The Rock Upon Which We Stand: Peter's story. Planned.

Part of The Chronicles of the Awakening, a shared universe of three series set in Wellington, New Zealand.