Every spell steals a life you might have lived.
In Orith, magic is borrowed from the lives you could have lived—and every borrowed skill destroys that future forever.
Miren Kest has no future at all.
When a murdered imperial seer remembers meeting her tomorrow, his final vision names Miren as the woman who will kill Emperor Cassian Voss. Dragged from the mortuary where she works to the Bastion of Hours, Miren enters a world of princes trained to weaponize destiny, diplomats who bargain with storms, and an empire that claims its prophecies have preserved peace.
But the Atlas of Dawns does not merely predict disaster. It creates the crises that make obedience necessary—then erases every life that might have resisted.
To clear her name, Miren must ally with a prince who remembers a thousand versions of his death, a queen whose homeland has been edited by the empire, and the discarded people of futures that officially never existed.
The Choosing is approaching. The empire will select one perfect tomorrow.
And only a woman history cannot see can break it.
The Crown of Borrowed Hours is the first novel in The Morrowglass Cycle, an adult epic fantasy series filled with political intrigue, morally complex alliances, an original time-magic system, and victories that always carry a cost.