Set on a desert planet, the story follows Rahnia, tasked with hunting down a voice box to secure a future for her people, despite their lack of rightful claim. As her community seeks to conquer, Rahnia grapples with her own desire for freedom, creating a tension between duty and personal longing. The narrative explores themes of colonization, identity, and the struggle for autonomy in a harsh environment.
Though August, a half human, half spyren, has always felt like the end of things, she's offered a new beginning when she quits her taxing job of reading memories in the purple Argysi sand. Without other humans' emotions dragging her down, she's now faced with the daunting task of finding out where other people end, and she begins. Deciding to take a job as a gardener to the hanging gardens of the Spire, August discovers more to life than living for others as she meets new friends, forms a different connection with the moon on which they love, and faces her past as an unexpected visitor returns to her life.Rich in palpable, relatable emotions and experiences, inspiring in message, and filled with prose that keeps you hooked from page one, Moon Soul is a sci-fi novella like nothing you've ever read before and will leave you speechless, feeling seen and understood even in a universe so vast.