Time Becomes Relevant
Description
Born with a coveted magic, Magnolia goes into hiding after her mother's violent abduction. Shazzwick of Land promises to help find her. One with the land, Shazz is of a people so rare most believe they are but myth. He is Unnamed. And for the first time, he has something to lose.
War is spreading.
Magnolia alone has the magic to defeat the sorceress-warlord who shattered her family and corrupted the powerful Dayus of Land.
Can Shazz keep his mortal love alive as she confronts the warmongering sorceress?
Time Becomes Relevant is the first in an epic fantasy trilogy told through the lens of a love story, written in a hopeful tone and the soaring mood of Chinese immortal fantasy (xianxia). Set in a multicultural world, this is a tale of geopolitics, intrigue, complex familial dynamics, elemental versus death magic, found family and deep friendships that bridge cultures, races, and time.
Available in Trade Paperback (468 pages), eBook, and Audiobook.
A Multi-Sensory Immersive Reading Experience: A reading companion is freely available on the publisher's website, which is linked in all digital and print copies. There, readers will find the music playlist the author listened to while writing the story, the orchestral performance to which the epigraph lyrics are set, with timestamps provided in the book, and information about Sensory Immersion Packages, which curate the story's various teas and scents for the reader.
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Ka-Yee Essoe (劉家宜), Ph.D. (Psychology, UCLA; Psychiatry Postdoc, Johns Hopkins Medicine) is an assistant professor at a small, public university at rural Maine. As a cognitive neuroscientist specialising in learning enhancement, she understands the power of stories to instil empathy, resilience, joy, and hope. She began writing novels to do just that. As an East Asian immigrant who enjoys many intercultural friendships, rich cultural diversity permeates the worlds and conflicts she crafts in her epic fantasy novels with integral love-story threads. Drawing on her personal experience and 10+ years mentoring others to navigate anxiety, disabilities, abuse, discrimination, trauma, and grief, her stories follow characters facing these struggles to encourage readers through their journeys and growth.
Her favourite writers are Jin Yong (金庸, which she would pronounce Guhm Yung) and Charles Dickens. She also enjoys the work of Agatha Christie (as translated into Chinese), Anne McCaffrey, C. S. Lewis, Timothy and Kathy Keller, and sometimes, especially on rainy days, Anne Rice and Jane Austen.
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