Current WIP: Sahari

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Sahari is a sci-fi epic fantasy inspired by Dune and Star Wars. Halfway through Dune: Part Two, I had a sinking feeling that I’d seen this film before. Just like Anakin and Padmé, Paul and Chani were doomed! After the credits rolled, I looked it up. Spoiler: Chani dies. I was furious. Padmé and Chani are two of my favorite heroines, yet both were ultimately sidelined in stories that were supposed to belong to them as much as to the men they loved. So, I asked myself: What if, this time, the love interest saved the chosen one?

 “No two planets were ever more distinct than Obsithia and Sahari—one bathed in eternal darkness, the other in unyielding light. On Obsithia, there was no dawn, no stars—only endless night, as if the entire planet lay drowned beneath the depths of Ōkeanos, a world of a thousand oceans.

If there was one thing Nyx understood, it was darkness. He had been born into it, shaped by it, and long ago accepted that it would be all he ever knew. Still, he had heard the whispered songs of the old days, tales of a burned-out sun.” 

Across the Cosmos, a world of relentless sun and shifting sands burned bright: Sahari. This is where Elysia Lightbringer and Nyx Shadowcaster collide, altering not just the course of both their lives but all of the Cosmos. Elysia is a lowly priestess with a dangerous secret—she’s godtouched, marked by a divine power her people fear as much as they revere. 

Everything changes when the tyrant-king Varikar declares that whichever of his countless children conquers Sahari will become his heir. The Obsithian invasion shatters Elysia’s life, and in the chaos of her temple’s fall, she’s taken captive by Nyx.

When Nyx is betrayed and forced to flee, Elysia escapes. To survive the burning suns and perilous journey across the sands of Sahari, Nyx and Elysia will have to learn to trust each other—whether they want to or not.