The covers are done.
All six of them. I kept saying I was going to do a slow rollout, one cover a week, build up the hype. Then I finished the last one and realized I did not want to wait. If you are going to launch a whole series on day one, the covers should land the same way. Together. Loud.
So here they are.
Stone and Storm
Book one. Nico Alario walking past the Castillo de San Marcos, the night the stone under St. Augustine cracks open for the first time. Lightning overhead, a fracture of gold light splitting the ground. This was the first cover I locked in, and everything else in the series had to live up to it.
Tide and Thorn
Book two. Mia Salinas and the water. A column of tide spiraling up over the bay, wrapped in thorns the Accord never told her about. The minute I saw this one I knew the series had a visual language that was going to hold.
Ash and Iron
Book three. The Crucible. A lantern caged in chains at the mouth of a Miami alley, flame waiting inside. This is the book where the series stops being about discovering power and starts being about surviving the institution that is supposed to teach it.
Frost and Flame
Book four. A locked records room inside the Athenaeum. Ice on one side of the crack, fire on the other. The evidence that could end the Accord, and the sister who is holding the match.
Shadow and Root
Book five. The Everglades at night. A mangrove labyrinth. Nico standing at the edge of a community that has been hiding from the Accord for a thousand years. Of all six covers, this one might be my favorite. You can feel how long those roots have been waiting.
Light and Ruin
Book six. The ending. Eight elemental sigils circling the broken stone at the heart of everything, sunrise breaking over the ruin. I wanted this cover to feel like the world was exhaling. Like whatever happens in this book, the Accord does not come back from it.
About the Elements
Quick note because people keep asking. There are eight elements in this world, not six. Stone. Water. Ash. Fire. Flora. Shadow. Crystal. Light. The reason there are only six books is that the last two volumes carry more than one element each, and the finale pulls all eight together. Every cover hints at the element or elements the book centers on, if you look closely.
What Comes Next
Release date is coming soon. All six books dropping day one, paperback and ebook, exactly the way I said I was going to do it. If you want to be there when the announcement lands, the best place to catch it is the subscribe list on the main site or following @myth.root on Instagram.
The elements are waking up. The covers are the first thing you get to see. The books are right behind them.
Thank you for being here for this. I have been working toward this launch for a long time and knowing there are people waiting on the other side of it makes every late night worth it.