The Growing Divide is the free prequel novella in the Ascend Trials. You can preorder the ebook version of Grace's story, IF THE WALLS FALL, on Amazon. Bookish seventeen year old Grace would rather read romances than fight evil, but when a fantasy world claims her as their prophesied savior, she embarks on the journey of a lifetime to prove they’re wrong. Read her story in IF THE WALLS FALL, coming May 16, 2022. When Grace lands in Sekai in IF THE WALLS FALL, the world is already split in two. On one side live the immortals, the Light and Dark magic beings called Eósy. On the other side are the Sarkàny, descendants of the immortal Eósy who walled themselves off from magic millennia ago. But the world wasn't always split, and the wall didn't grow peacefully, but burst from the earth fed by blood and betrayal. As the magically unskilled daughter of the Lord of Menhir, Bittállí knows her role: to marry the heir of Raddare, do as she's told, and be the proper wife she was raised to be. When the wife of the Lord of Raddare is killed, whispers of a wall against magic rise. With her beloved demanding the wall and her overbearing family against it, her choice seems easy. But when choices are lost, Bittállí must make her own.