The world is dying. Resources are limited. Settlements aggressively defend their food and water. Rose has always been grateful to the people who took her in as a lost child, forgiving their harsh treatment and hard work because of their initial act of kindness. The violent consequences of a tragic accident causes Rose to not only question her life, but her very existence. Her quest to discover what she is leads her to find a world that has been hidden for centuries.
Iseult Murphy started writing at a young age, entertaining her family with magazines that she wrote and illustrated as a child. In her teens, she won several local and national short story competitions, including three time overall winner of the RDS Young Science Writers competition, and had work placed in international writing competitions such as the BBC Wildlife Poetry competition. Iseult is drawn to horror, fantasy and science fiction, as she feels that the most difficult aspects of life can be best explored through the lens of speculative fiction. She currently resides on the east coast of Ireland with four dogs, a couple of humans and a cat. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys reading, art and spending time with her animals. Iseult’s speculative fiction short stories have appeared in over two dozen venues, most recently in Liquid Imagination and Frost Fire Worlds.