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The Never Tilting World – Rin Chupeco

The follow-up to author Rin Chupeco’s excellent The Bone Witch trilogy is a duology focused on two sisters who must unite a world of day and night.

The Never Tilting World tells the story of Aeon, a now-dystopian world that has been always been ruled by a pair of twin goddesses. But when one of the sisters made a dangerous choice, the planet stops spinning, cloaking half in light, and half in darkness.

Now their teen daughters, Odessa and Haidee rule two separate hemispheres, unknown to and unaware of one another. But when they are both mysteriously drawn back to the site of the Breaking that ruined their world, will they be able to fix the mistakes of the past.

The official synopsis reads as follows.

"Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon. But seventeen years ago, one sister’s betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two. The planet ceased to spin, and a Great Abyss now divides two realms: one cloaked in perpetual night, the other scorched by an unrelenting sun. While one sister rules Aranth—a frozen city surrounded by a storm-wracked sea —her twin inhabits the sand-locked Golden City. Each goddess has raised a daughter, and each keeps her own secrets about her sister’s betrayal. But when shadowy forces begin to call their daughters, Odessa and Haidee, back to the site of the Breaking, the two young goddesses —along with a powerful healer from Aranth, and a mouthy desert scavenger —set out on separate journeys across treacherous wastelands, desperate to heal their broken world. No matter the sacrifice it demands."

The Never Tilting World is available on October 15.