Paige Mahoney is a clairvoyant in a dystopian London where voyants are hunted. When she's captured and brought to Oxford — which is actually a secret colony of the Rephaim — she must survive, adapt, and resist. Shannon built one of the most complex fantasy worlds of her generation in a debut novel.
Clean — all tension is focused on escape, power, and survival.
Skip if you dislike:
Moods: Dark Atmospheric Dense World-Building
Tropes: Clairvoyant Powers Captive/Captor Forbidden Complex World
Yes initially — Shannon throws you into a complex world without much hand-holding. The payoff for patient readers is enormous.
Seven books are planned; several have been published.
A slow burn develops across the series — it's not the primary focus early on.
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