The Forgotten Gemstone
The Forgotten Gemstone
Ule can become anything. She’s Xiinisi: a trans-dimensional being—builder of worlds. Yet one of those worlds has trapped her. Stranger still, something with power walks there, forcing her to remember the one thing she is meant to be.
Shunned by her peers and spurned by a love interest, Ule retreats into Elish, a world she built for escape and amusement as a child, only to discover her sanctuary isn’t as it should be: an old friend is dead, a mysterious force blocks her way back to her realm, and then the impossible—demons walk the Root Dimension.
After an encounter with the demon Istok, Ule awakens unable to remember who or what she is. As she navigates the end of a long war, Ule searches for clues to her identity in a world she doesn’t recognize.
True nature is impossible to forget.
A Xiinisi Trilogy includes:
The Forgotten Gemstone (Book 1)
The Other Castle (Book 2)
The Starry Rise (Book 3)
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Reader Reviews
“It reminded me in some ways of books from the 70’s, the Silurian series, or some shades of Tanith Lee. Its central premise has a race of beings who are functionally gods, though seen through a sci-fi lens. Like say the Q of Star Trek, though even more limited by the realities of physics.”
Wise Owl, Goodreads Reviewer
“I really liked that the relationships in her novel are exactly that, relationships, be they differently sexed or same sexed and they’re undertaken without judgement or soap box style rhetoric. There’s no agenda in The Forgotten Gemstone, just a story with a great feel for what its characters need.”
Sean, Amazon Reviewer
“The surface level story about a lonely and rather lost world maker with amnesia trying to get back to something resembling happiness was well done, but what gets this novel my five stars is how much more there is to the tale… For someone whose created worlds and lived for who knows how long, Ule is incredibly human and I love her for it.”
Kerri, Amazon Reviewer