If you're looking for a novel with a non-binary, queer race of beings, a mortal with an ancient soul, or a mystery about time itself that needs resolving....The Echoes of Eternity series may be the read for you. In The Mortal and the Shadow, a heroine is introduced to a world beyond her comprehension, and is inadvertently thrust into the midst of a complicated dynamic between Shadow Beings and their Queen that's been raging for centuries. Their only issue? No one remembers it's happening-save for the Queen themselves.
With nothing to her name but a hope and a dream, Zema finds herself committed to a particular Shadow and unable to deny the unimaginable pull of them and their world...