Part-human, part-Fae · Once a slave · Lady of the hidden isle of Cretea

Miryam

Walked out of the Black Land and never stopped opening doors for everyone else.

Born part-human, part-Fae and made a slave. Freed in the first war, picked her own love, and now she and Drakon run a hidden island for everyone the world threw away. The collar became the life's work.

At a glance

Kind: Part-human, part-Fae
Born: The Black Land — into slavery
In the first war: Freed slave; tied to the human resistance
Her love: Drakon, prince of the winged Seraphim
Once loved: Jurian, mortal commander of the war
Now: Co-rules Cretea, a hidden island sanctuary
The trick that saved her: She and Drakon faked their own deaths

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Drakon The love of her lifeDrakonThe Seraphim prince who freed her from slavery and became the great enduring love of her long life.Enter Drakon →

Jurian The love she leftJurianThe mortal commander she loved in the war, until his vendetta consumed the man she knew.Enter Jurian →

Amarantha The war-era grudgeAmaranthaAmarantha's vengeance for her sister Clythia, slain by Jurian, drove the bitterness that warped the man Miryam once loved.Enter Amarantha →

Hybern The enemy that returnedHybernThe kingdom whose new war drew her and Drakon out of long hiding to fight again.Enter Hybern →

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