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.
The same cloth first edition, at $29.99. For a hand-numbered copy inscribed to you by the author, see the signed limited edition (from $39.99). On Amazon now: the Kindle edition, paperback, and hardcover.
Something was taken from this world while you slept — from you, too, though you cannot yet name it — and the shape of it is there, pulling you onward. Enter as Selena does: unremembering, and drawn by something that remembers for you.
Walk, then. Through a stolen court where a borrowed life is worn like a gown — toward a sister, a truth, a coming dark. Through the temple that guards the world's souls. And meet the stars on the road: they will offer help whose cost is not yet named.
This world has wisdom for those who cross it — about masks, about awakening, about the path that was yours all along.
The stars are eager to help you on your way. Remember: the stars should not be trusted.
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 Madeline Miller, 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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