House de Vaillant, once secure under its patriarch Alexios, now faces a future unmoored. Power shifts, loyalties fray, and secrets long buried push to the surface. The Light Fanatics traces a family’s struggle for legacy and survival, a tale of intrigue, ambition, and change in a world reshaped by loss.
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Book 1: Emberlight
Gallia, 1788. Revolution simmers, and House de Vaillant stands as both beacon and fortress. When Laila de Vaillant discovers a hidden chamber in her ancestral estate, she uncovers a mirror that whispers of the Umbra: a shadowed realm of peril and power.
From courtly halls to haunted catacombs, Laila and her children must confront old enemies, fractured bonds, and the mystery of their father’s death. With the cult of the Dragon Queen rising, the family must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to defend their name, their city, and their world from the dark that presses in.
Book 2: Torchbright
In Pharelle, faith, ambition, and rebellion collide. The de Vaillant heirs find themselves drawn into the struggle to reshape a fractured society, even as ancient powers stir.
Valère, founder of the Aurelian Church, emerges from obscurity bearing a relic said to restore light to a world locked in winter. Yet his return raises more questions than it answers, while vampiric ambition and the fury of the fallen sun goddess Aeloria threaten to upend the balance of power.
Caught between prophecy and pragmatism, the de Vaillants must confront their bloodline’s secrets and weigh the cost of divinity itself.
Book 3: Gods’ Night
Winter tightens its hold on Gallia as rebellion brews and prophecy takes shape. Beneath Pharelle, the ossuary hides more than the dead: it conceals the remnants of a ritual once meant to raise Răzvan Țepeș to vampiric godhood.
The de Vaillants, heirs marked by scandal and divided loyalties, are drawn into the storm. Maximilian, burdened by duty, must rally kin: Wylan, the relentless alchemist; Lambert, the scholar-preacher weighed by his bastardy; and Isabella, the siren who refuses her bloodline’s chains.
As Valère Prospère returns with promises of salvation, old rivalries flare, a stolen sword shifts hands, and the wrath of Aeloria burns once more in the dark.