Welcome to the Obsidian Coast

The Obsidian Coast is a place where the sea keeps its own history. Along its shores, sirens guard their sovereignty, vampire courts measure power in blood, and old promises refuse to stay buried.

At the center of In This Life and the Next are Selene and Calista, sisters bound across lifetimes. Their story begins in the Neridian Caves and reaches toward a court built on blood, where a forbidden bargain threatens a treaty already beginning to fracture.

This journal is a place to linger over that world: the people who shape it, the factions that protect it, and the choices that make survival more complicated than victory.