Starside
The sequel to Lightlark continues across a fractured, magical world where paranormal forces shape reality itself. The paranormal romance deepens as characters deal with a dangerous, beautiful cosmos. This book expands the supernatural scope while keeping the romance at its core.
Everything You Need to Know About Starside
Alex Aster's first adult romantasy. Centuries ago a war split the land in two: Starside, where immortal descendants of the gods live soaked in magic, and Stormside, where mortals scrape by on what leaks through. Every fifty years the gates open and fifty challengers cross Starside on a deadly quest toward a pool of magic that can heal, enrich, or extend a life. Aris enters for none of those reasons. A goddess burned her village and her family when she was a child, and she is not coming for the gods' magic, she is coming for the gods. First she has to survive the Culling, the king's competition to choose his fifty.
A child loses her family to fire in the backstory, and the competition itself involves deaths and sustained violence.
For readers who want enemies-to-lovers vengeance romantasy built on a deadly competition, Hunger Games bones with Fourth Wing energy in an adult package. Worth knowing that Aster's plotting has always divided readers, so your mileage will depend on how loud you like your tropes.
Book 1 of the Starside series, published March 31, 2026, and an instant number one New York Times bestseller. The sequel, Stormside, is scheduled for November 17, 2026.
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