Lyra and the Field of Names

Before the orchard. Before Ellie and Lila. Before the Godkiller returned to war.There was Lyra.Lyra knows records. She knows how people vanish from paper before they vanish from the world. Working with her closest friend, Miriam Lorne, she begins to notice impossible absences hidden inside official archives: names removed too cleanly, deaths filed too neatly, lives erased with a precision no ordinary government should possess.Then she meets Caine.To others, he is a rumour in human shape - a man without a true archive, a shadow moving through history, a weapon kings, states, and hidden institutions have used for centuries. To Lyra, he is something far more dangerous: a man who has survived too much, lost too much, and still carries the faint possibility of being loved.For a time, peace seems possible.But Miriam keeps digging. Lyra keeps reading. The missing names begin to form a pattern, and somewhere behind the pattern waits a place no one is meant to find: the Field of Names, where the erased are remembered only by those who know where to look.As the investigation tightens around her, Lyra must decide how much truth a family can survive. Because Caine's love is real, but so is the monster beneath it. And if he learns too much, too soon, grief may become something the world cannot contain.Dark, gothic, tragic, and deeply tied to the wider Caine universe, Lyra and the Field of Names is the story of the woman who found the edge of the hidden world before Caine did - and paid the price for trying to keep him from it.

Pages: 314, Paperback, Independently published