The First Definition of Fortune

Pearls and pirates. Silver and spiders. Geniuses, madmen, and gods.

The path to fortune lies upon the sea.

OVER NINE CENTURIES HAVE PASSED SINCE THE RENDING, a cataclysm that isolated the Illunni Realm from the rest of the world by a series of impassable barriers: sheer mountains, scorching desert, and a stinging barrier reef patrolled by titanic leviathans. Dwindling resources have put the realm at risk of collapse, and with the ruling family betrayed and murdered, nothing is certain.

Dez is a pickpocket, scraping together a life on the reef at the edge of the world. He dreams of finding his fortune in the distant city of Greenleg, but without so much as a pearl to his name, a better life seems further from reach than even the twin moons. When he finds gold in a drifter's pocket, Dez thinks his prayers to the leviathan gods have been answered...only for a stranger in white to turn all his plans to ashes.

Reeling, broken, Dez finds the world a wider, stranger, and far more treacherous place than he'd imagined. Now, he must do more than survive - he must decide who he wants to be.

And always, the stranger in white draws closer.

A sweeping coming of age story, The First Definition of Fortune is at once an epic adventure and an intimate exploration of identity, belonging, and the necessity of hope.

Coming Soon

The Second Shape of Dreams

Book II of The Cordoned Kingdom