Together, pursued across the Earth and trespassing the heavens, Ceris and Ristriel are on a path to illuminate the mysteries that bind them and discover the secrets of the celestial world. Now, as Ceris traverses realms both mortal and beyond, her journey truly begins. Ristriel is incorporeal, a fugitive, a trickster, and the only being who can guide Ceris safely to her destination. Inexplicably displaced in time, Ceris is determined to seek out her descendants.īeing a woman traveling alone brings its own challenges, until Ceris encounters a mysterious-and desperate-godling. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it’s not nine months later-it’s seven hundred years later. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family’s honor and take control of her legacy. The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. When a star dies, a new one must be born. (Nov.A woman’s heart proves as infinite as the night sky in a breathtaking fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Agent: Marlene Stringer, Stringer Literary. Readers will find entertainment and hope in this sweeping, mythic tale. At its core, however, the novel offers an enticing exploration of the human desire to belong and be loved within a lifetime, however long that may be. Holmberg’s worldbuilding is unique but rushed, encompassing gods, galaxies, love affairs, and epic warfare in a short span of pages. Sought by gods and mortals alike, Ceris finds herself caught in the middle of the eternal war between Sun and Moon and goes on the run with a mysterious man named Ristriel.

She attempts to return to her family on Earth, but discovers that 700 years have passed during her time with Sun. Unloved by her betrothed, Ceris volunteers to be the one to lay with Sun and birth a star-though she knows star mothers die in the process of giving birth. When the torch is lit above the church in Ceris Wenden’s village, it signals that a star has died, and the Sun seeks a vessel to birth another star child. A woman tries to find her place in the cosmos in this jam-packed celestial fantasy from Holmberg ( Spellmaker).

Star Mother by Charlie N. Holmberg