Lilly Beneath The World

The world beneath the world was never supposed to wake up. And Lilly did it by planting a flower.

Lilly is just a girl who fell through — down past roots and rivers into the breathing dark, where doors inhale, trees wear chains, and something vast stirs in enclave after enclave. She doesn't have a plan. She has a lily. And that turns out to be enough to change everything.

Along the way she gathers the strangest family ever assembled: Ysil the Veil-Mother, who mothers with vines; Thorne the Executioner, who broke his own chains; Pip, a living heart; Hush, with a lily for a face. And Asha — the haloed dragon Lilly grew from a lily planted in ash, who carries the whole family's broken pieces and loves the babies like a warm auntie.

Lilly Beneath the World: The Suckering is Book One of the LILLY saga — a story about falling down and growing up, about the families we find in the dark, and about one girl who proves that small seeds crack the deepest stone