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About the Author
D.W. Kuo writes about broken things that burn anyway. Her characters flirt, bleed, grieve, and rebel through worlds that demand too much—and take even more. Songs of Crimisa is her love letter to those who laugh too loudly to keep from breaking, and to the ones who do break, but still rise.
New Book Release
Lullaby from the Fire, coming November 2025
When the world breaks, some boys shatter. Others rise from the ashes.
Collin lives tucked between a wild meadow and the safety of his mother’s lullabies—until the night he climbs a tree and sees the fire. Smoke veils the stars. By morning, the world he knows is gone.
Torn from everything he loves, Collin must navigate a fractured nation ruled by fear. Haunted by memory and grief, he comes of age in the quiet shadows of resistance, drawn toward the girl who once made space for him in her world—and the dreams of a future that may never come.
But in Crimisa, nothing stays untouched for long. When love, loyalty, and legacy collide, Collin must decide what kind of man he will become—and what he’s willing to risk for the chance to rise.
A lyrical, emotionally charged fantasy of rebellion and resilience, Lullaby from the Fire is the first book in the epic Songs of Crimisa series—for readers drawn to slow-burn romance, found family, and the aching beauty of stories that linger like scars.
