This is where it all comes together

Dear Book Friends,

Wickem Academy book 3, The Broken Imperium, releases in a little over a week. I feel like I should tell you something about this book before it comes out.

Not about the plot, exactly—but about the feeling of it.

Because yes, things at Wickem are… not going well. Magic is still unstable, nothing is as fixed as it should be, and the deeper Marigold digs, the more complicated everything gets.

But that’s not really what this book is about.

This one is about them.

Up until now, everything between Marigold and the heirs has been in motion. They’ve been figuring things out, pushing and pulling, resisting, adjusting. It hasn’t been settled. It hasn’t been certain.

This is the book where that changes.

Not because things get easier (they don’t), but because they stop trying to control it.

Keane has to learn to let go of holding everything together. Elio finally stops performing and just… shows up as himself. And Cyrus has to face the fact that wanting something completely doesn’t mean you get to own it—that love isn’t control, and that choosing matters more.

And Marigold is right there in the middle of all of it, not trying to force anything into place anymore—just deciding what she’s willing to fight for, and who.

By the end, it’s not fragile anymore. It’s not temporary. It’s not something that might fall apart the second things go wrong.

It’s chosen.

The kind of love that doesn’t need to prove anything.

The Broken Imperium releases next week.

This is where everything finally comes together.

Cali

P.S. If you want it waiting for you when it drops, you can preorder it here → https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-broken-imperium