BEFORE GLIMMERBIGHT BECAME A PLACE OF LEGEND, before the Amethyst Lantern cast its purple light across a changed world, there were four friends, one impossible discovery, and a night when everything began to glow.

Andraste (known to her friends as Andi) has spent her life chasing beauty, knowledge, and hope in a world already tipping toward catastrophe. At a coastal inn perched above a crescent bay, she gathers with her brilliant, eccentric circle: Bendin, the poet-scientist with a secret hidden beneath the vines; Bozzard, botanist, doctor, and loyal chaos agent; and Pim, a joyful tinkerer whose creations may be far more wondrous than anyone imagined.

But as heat rises, storms gather, and the world beyond the island begins to fracture, Andi discovers that the future may depend on the very things most people overlook: friendship, art, old lighthouses, strange machines, moonlight, and the stubborn refusal to surrender wonder.

When a mysterious force awakens beneath the earth, it changes them all. Some gifts are radiant, some dangerous, and some bind a person forever to the place and people they love.

Lush, romantic, whimsical, and bittersweet, The Dawn of Dusk and Twilight is the origin story of a world born from collapse-a tale of found family, ecological hope, impossible science, and the enduring light we carry into the dark.