Seven realms strung along a living root. Magic that asks instead of takes. A woman who spent her whole life being told she was too wild...too much.
This is the world of Flow & Fallow, and it's about connection. Between women. Between people and the land they belong to. Between who you thought you were and who you actually are. It's about found family, love that took seventeen years to bloom, and what grows back even where you thought nothing would.
Welcome to Elira
Take a step inside...
See what finds you.
The Witch
Six Dahlia has survived by carrying everyone else.
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She's a Flora Witch, which means her power comes from the living world...if it will have her.
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She crosses into Cristilline, a frozen realm cut off from everything she knows, to find a flower that can rebuild bone. Her sister's hand is shattered and the bones won't wait on her to heal.
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That's the mission. The harder thing is underneath it: Six believes she's only worth what she gives. So she carries, and is never carried.
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The book is about what happens when she finally lets someone hold her.
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She meets ruin with a sharp tongue, a filthy mouth, and full-bodied joy. She talks to plants. She names what she loves and curses what she doesn't. Feral and tender in the same breath.
Too much, on purpose.
The Grove.
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No one in Elira survives alone. Not really.
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The Grove is what Six finds when she stops running.
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They're loud. They're in each other's homes without knocking. They feed each other without being asked and show up without being called.
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That's the easy part. The harder thing is underneath it…Six has to let them. She's spent her whole life being the one who holds.
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Being held is the thing she doesn't know how to do.
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They don't fix her. They just refuse to let her fall apart.
The Kindred
The Wolf
The Wolf
The Wolf holds his pack together when the world breaks. Guarded, watchful, all restraint and teeth.
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He's a Wolf, which means the pack isn't a metaphor. It's blood, and law, and the thing he'd die for.
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He learned young that love gets taken. So he braces....for everything.
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He controls what he can reach and stands between everyone and the cold.
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He loves through making and doing, not saying. He carves. He builds. He fixes straps nobody asked him to fix. A man of few words and fewer soft ones...but watch what his hands do and you'll know exactly how he feels.
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Everyone else steps carefully around his teeth.
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Six walks up and stares into them.
Why Elira?
I read a pile of romantasy and kept thinking I want more than this.
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Then the world cracked open in a way that genuinely scared me, and I funneled all of that...the fear, the fury, the stubborn hope...into a story. It became a whole world.
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Seven realms, its own calendar, magic that asks instead of takes, and a woman who spent seventeen years being told she was too much.
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I wanted a fantasy that loved women as much as it loved the romance. Nobody was going to hand me that, so I made it.
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I wrote it for anyone who was told to be less.
Salem Astrejavic
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