Perpetūra

A painter's hands close over a brush he uses only on the dead. He is about to paint a living noblewoman in Joseon Korea, 1742, and something in the room already feels wrong. Hyunjae has built her life on perfect order. His glance breaks it.

That's one story. There are five.

Reine is the most photographed woman in Belle Époque Paris, and she is hiding one painting no one is allowed to see. Liuyan crosses Tang Dynasty China alone, a blade-for-hire carrying a debt that was never fully hers. Lia commands an empire no one has beaten, and she's invisible to everyone who actually knows her. Ophelia invented a way for a feeling to survive death. She never learned how to survive her own.

Five women, across five centuries, and the loves that made them. Read them separately and each one holds. Read them in order and something else surfaces — something none of them can name, and neither will I.

This is Lacunae's mature romance omnibus: five complete stories, one connected book.

Contains explicit sexual content. Intended for readers 18+.