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

Bound to

The threads of her life

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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 →

Also in the story

Connected

Allies, rivals and enemies — the ones this story crossed.

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Feyre Archeron Feyre ArcheronCrossed pathsEnter Feyre Archeron →

Morrigan MorriganAn allyEnter Morrigan →

What she holds onto

Her tethers

Drakon
Freed her instead of owning her. Became the great love of her long life. We see why.
Cretea
The hidden island she built into a sanctuary for everyone the world cast out — the way she once was.
The freed
The persecuted and the part-blooded who find a door on her isle. A whole life's work made of other people's second chances.
Freedom itself
Born in the collar, spent a long life undoing it — for herself first, then for everyone she could reach.

The long versionRead her whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

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