‘…this new place was magnificent: shining whites and greys, golds and glossy blacks combined to form an ancient yet futuristic metropolis…’
Caelara Teneo’s mundane life in East London with her father Celassis is shattered when a terrifying assault causes her to manifest supernatural abilities. As their past catches up with the Teneos, they are forced to flee through a secret portal to Sacerdos, the jewel of a world called Terra Magna.
Once there, Caelara discovers she is a giftblood, one of a select minority who have ruled the Universe from Sacerdos for thousands of years. Yet, as Caelara struggles to deal with the upheaval of growing up, factions within giftblood society break down. Beyond the walls of her educator, a war is brewing and Caelara’s place in it has been millennia in the making.
Sacerdos: The Sacerdos Mysteries I …this new place was magnificent: shining whites and greys, golds and glossy blacks combined to form an ancient yet futuristic metropolis… Caelara Teneo’s mundane life in East London with her father Celassis is shattered when a terrifying assault causes her to manifest supernatural abilities. As their past catches up with…
The Grid: Terra Magna Erotica Politica ‘She took a chance that seemed so foreign and strange to her. She grappled with it, then grasped it with both hands. Ignatia had traversed the grid.’ Ignatia Bai, queer educational inspector, is on a mission to visit every White Leaf educator in her world. To do so, she…
Gifted Blood: The Sacerdos Mysteries V “The path was illuminated – not the whole path, for she didn’t need to walk the whole path at this moment. All she needed were the next few steps. She needed enough of the road to keep on walking.” Hours turn into months in ‘Gifted Blood’, the fifth book…
‘A boy who can tame lightning, a man whose blood can raise the dead. All these things are impossible… but we have seen them happen.’
Three years after the events of ‘Sacerdos’, Caelara Teneo has settled back into academic life. Since Nathan’s fateful letter, she has not heard a single thing from him. Over time her heart heals and she forms a new romantic relationship with the debonair Mardan noble, Xaviour Leston. The scar tissue of their histories binds them together. Yet, the very fabric of Caelara’s world is about to unravel. The Advorsa have not been sleeping and this is a calm before their great storm. No matter how peaceful things seem, Sacerdos is threatened by dark forces. The war is coming.
British writer Elizabeth Amisu is the author of eight books and numerous writings that span the genres of fiction, screenplay, short story, non-fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, playwriting and reviews. Her writing and projects are based around her interest in fantasy and black identity. Lightnings, her sixty-minute stage play aims to demonstrate an understanding, through…
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DISequilibrium: The Sacerdos Mysteries IV ‘The Advorsa were not running the world. They were draining it dry. And if they had their way, there wouldn’t even be a world.’ Caelara Teneo is so powerful she can command the sky and sea but in ‘DISequilibrium’, her battle is with heartache. Terra Magna has fallen under Lasias’…
Waterblood: The Sacerdos Mysteries III ‘There were no victors in this war, only losers, forever changed by the crimes they had committed.’ In ‘Waterblood’, Caelara Teneo struggles to adapt to her new life in a rebel-stronghold called Arcana. It is named after the arcane ability that she could have if it weren’t for her embedded…