Every tradition has a beginning.
Two hundred years before the events of Crystal Division, the Crystal Isle had no queen, no king. Only anarchy. Only peace. Every coin has two sides. History has two sides: what is remembered, recorded. And what is forgotten.
The arrival of King Larus of Keit will change history forever. It will change the lives of all citizens, men and women alike.
Ai'nah, a sheltered girl of the Mountains, is uprooted from everything she thinks she knows when she is hand-picked to become his queen and forced from her caves into his court. She can see the stars but never reach for them.
Alongside the new queen, four more women from across the kingdom and beyond are taken from their futures to serve the needs of the crown. Ai'nah, Linika, Zhafila, Heron, and Amalen must learn to live with each other and themselves as they form the inaugural Crystal Division.
Over the course of a lifetime, the women wrestle with their fates, their faith, their legacies, and identities. They wish to live, to be remembered - if only out of spite. But in a world where women's voices are silenced, will they even be remembered at all?
