Finding Her Spoilers Ahead

On the last episode of Lore of the Fields…Our MMC (Graysen, a Pyran “Fire Daddy”) found our FMC (Faeryn, a “human”) in some dark, scary woods named Tesilvis on a strange, monster-populated planet named Trebianna. Faeryn is suffering from episodic amnesia with no memories of her past, including how she got there. Without explanation, Graysen promises to take care of her and brings her to his town named Virylan.Once at his home, Graysen starts acting strangely. He is inexplicably moody, insists on dyeing her hair if she wants to leave the house, and has a secret room she isn’t allowed to enter. Faeryn pushes back on his strange behavior and comes to love Graysen’s more positive attributes as they grow closer.Amidst their strange dynamic, Faeryn is struggling with physically painful nightmares about a white void and a disembodied voice beckoning her to return to Earth. She wrestles with whether to listen to this unnamed woman’s pleas or accept her presence in the world of Trebianna. As she falls in love with Graysen and integrates into his society, she decides to embrace her situation, rather than seeking out a home planet that is lost in her forgotten memories. Faeryn gets a job at the same pub Graysen works at, owned by a horned, four-armed man named Theo who periodically disappears to go “hiking” for long periods of time—returning with an unexplained limp on one occasion.Graysen’s paranoia brews over the course of the book as Faeryn creates normalcy for herself. He struggles with an unnamed trauma that he won’t share with her, which she accepts on the condition that he doesn’t use it to control her behavior.Everything comes to a head when a strange man attacks Faeryn in an alleyway, calling her a “battery”. Graysen makes quick work of her attacker, brutally killing him in front of her. When he hesitates one final time to explain what he knows about the situation, Faeryn runs away. Only to be captured by the only person she considered “safe”—someone seemingly unconnected to the entire web of oddities. Cassius.We learn Graysen and Faeryn had a history before he found her that night in the woods. In fact, they were married. She is a demigoddess, which is the reason for her healing powers throughout the story. Her mother—the goddess of life—has a habit of making babies with powerful men on Earth, where they then grow up. As adults, they are transported to a sacred field in Trebianna when their magic becomes too powerful to tolerate Earth’s pollution.On their new planet, Faeryn and her sisters are targeted by an organization named E.A.R.T.H. for their magical energy, which can be harnessed to power electricity in a society where that luxury is limited—making it a profitable business. This atrocity isn’t known amongst normal society. So, when Graysen brought Faeryn from her home island of Eitrea to Virylan to marry, he didn’t know the dangers at hand. It wasn’t long before she was kidnapped, disappearing from his life for six years until the fateful day he overheard a clue as to where he could find her.Graysen struggles over the course of the story with wanting to tell Faeryn about her past but hesitates. As part of the “energy pod” process, goddesses have their memories wiped. They are physically programmed to crave their home planet of Earth through a scientist-created conditioning process, a routine of administering painful drugs to them and subsiding the effects in tandem with playing a woman’s voice, coaxing them back to Earth. Because of this, the women who do escape suffer physical symptoms such as painful nightmares, confusion, and a powerful need to find the voice to feel better. Past rescue attempts have ended in suicide when the victim becomes overwhelmed by being told their entire Earthly life is now in the past and they are trapped on Trebianna and endangered. In fear of Faeryn suffering the same deadly fate, Graysen believes he cannot explain this to her until she is officially over the concept of “Earth”.At the climax of Book One, Graysen and his best friend Mykie, a hitman, go to Tesilvis to rescue Faeryn after her recapture. At the same time, she is working with her half-sister Dia to escape before being reconnected to a pod. The four of them exit the factory together, leaving carnage behind them.Finding Her ends with Graysen and Faeryn connecting over their past and going back to her home island of Eitrea to live amongst the dragons until they feel safe in society again. When they meet up with Mykie and her co-hitman Ragen in the epilogue, she explains that Theo seems to be passing off his pub and has been suspiciously absent…Read Sheltering Her to see what four-armed Theo has been up to!

Worldly Context:
Seasons: Seasons change every fifty days. In the Western Continent, these rotate between Summer and Winter. In the Eastern Continent, Spring and Fall.Time: There are forty hours in a day. Dawn/Dusk are referred to as “Starrise” and “Starset”, coordinating with the two daytime stars of the world.Years: A year is made of three “star cycles”. A star cycle is every 100 days, on the first day of a new summer.