Flight of the Aura is now available in hardcover.
I have been waiting to type those words for a very long time.
Flight of the Aura, Book 1 of the Sayyora Duology, is now available as a signed hardcover edition, and I will not pretend I have been calm about it. I have been the opposite of calm. I have told everyone, some people twice, whether they were interested or not.
What is it about?
Arawan is an Aura, a genetically engineered angel living in a sky realm where feelings are sins, and obedience is the highest virtue. She has spent her whole life being exactly what she was made to be: perfect, serene, unfeeling. But beneath her calm surface looms a roiling curiosity.
I hope I’m not spoiling anything when I say that all her carefully crafted plans don’t go entirely to plan. It would be a bit of a boring tale if it did. She breaks a rule, which is seen as a direct affront to the High God and is faced with a devastating choice that sends her somewhere she was never supposed to go. Stripped of the nectar that kept her serenity in check, she discovers what it actually means to feel things. To taste, to touch, to want. And to love, which is the most terrifying feeling of all.
It is a sci-fantasy about gods who demand perfection, a surface world full of colour and chaos, and one angel who starts asking the kind of questions that cannot be unasked.
Curiosity is the first sin. Disobedience is the last.
Why hardcover?
This is the first edition of a story that could end up immortalised on the big screen and inspire generations of angel obsession. (There is at least a 0.005% chance, which is not nothing.) And if it does, wouldn’t you want a signed copy of the first edition hardcover, designed by the author? It could be worth at least double one day. Think of it like an investment, or a retirement fund.
What comes next?
Book 2, Rise of the Seraph, is coming in 2026. Arawan is not done yet, and neither am I.
In the meantime, if you want to explore the Sayyoraverse before your copy arrives, you can find the world map, character guides, and more over at ckgalloway.com. Fair warning: it is a rabbit hole.
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