Vertcliff Publishing
Our Sidereal World: Selena and Lilith — First Edition Hardcover
Our Sidereal World: Selena and Lilith — First Edition Hardcover
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The first edition hardcover — unsigned.
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Our Sidereal World: Selena and Lilith is a celestial, metaphysical fantasy of souls and free will — an astrology-inspired literary epic, atmospheric and philosophical, built upon the mythology of the White Moon and the Black. Selena and Lilith are sisters of light and shadow; the heroine wakes without her memory and gathers a family before she recovers herself; the fixed stars come down and walk the roads wearing faces. A dark fairy tale for grown readers — for those who loved the symbolic mystery of Piranesi and the lyrical mythmaking of The Spear Cuts Through Water.
The story
The story
The dearest hand Selena ever knew was the hand that held the axe above her neck. It belonged to her sister.
Once Selena, the White Moon, was the Priestess who guarded the world's souls. When the dark massed at the world's rim, she made her move: she chose her Sun — the man who would rule and hold back the night. The plot was betrayed before it could bloom, and a withering curse fell on her instead, stealing her face, her memory, her name. She became a frail human, bound fast to the world by the affections of her unremembering heart. By the time she wakes, the lost years have done their work: the world has been emptied of its souls. She is herself again but knows nothing of the charge she is here to bear.
Yet something in her keeps the shape of what was taken, and she walks toward it. Toward the past. Toward Lilith — the Black Moon, the sister who raised the axe and now wears a borrowed life at the heart of a stolen court. Toward the truth Lilith carries: death is coming, not for Selena, but for the world entire.
Selena calls upon the stars — and finds them walking the world. They have the power she lacks to avert the end of days, and they are eager to help.
Selena must remember: the stars should not be trusted.
An astrology-inspired novel for readers of Guy Gavriel Kay and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.
Book details
Book details
Title: Our Sidereal World: Selena and Lilith
Author: Anastasia Vertcliff (cover: A. Vertcliff)
Publisher: Vertcliff Publishing LLC
Release: August 8, 2026
Length: 108,000 words · 336 pages
Genre: esoteric / mythic literary fantasy (astrology-inspired)
Editions from this shop: signed limited hardcover (500, hand-numbered) and first-edition hardcover
Also on Amazon, out now: Kindle, paperback, and hardcover
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