Saeris Fane

Saeris Fane begins her journey as an ordinary human woman who is drawn into the perilous Fae realm of Zilvaren — a world of blood and magic where her survival requires becoming something she was not when she entered. Her transformation across the series is rendered as genuine psychological change, not simply the acquisition of power, and the person she becomes retains the history of the person she was while incorporating the cost of everything the Fae world has demanded from her.

The Fae realm of Zilvaren is built with the specific detail of a world where magic has rules and where those rules have been engineered by factions with their own interests. Saeris's navigation of Zilvaren's politics and dangers is as much about discovering who can be trusted as it is about developing her own abilities.

The series has found its audience in the romantasy subgenre — the combination of elaborate Fae world-building and romantic tension that readers of Sarah J. Maas and Carissa Broadbent are drawn to. Begin with the first book in the Fae and Alchemy series and read in order for the full arc of Saeris's transformation.