The Shattered Moons — Book One
She Sat Alone
Love is the fundamental force of the universe.
It transcends death, form, and time.
The Shattered Moons — Book One
Love is the fundamental force of the universe.
It transcends death, form, and time.
In the vast and ruined Veriseh Desert, a man finds a woman dying alone beneath a shattered sky. He doesn't know her name. She doesn't remember her own. But something older than memory pulls him to her side — and refuses to let go.
Civ has spent his life running from a past that kept him caged. Perphraine wakes with nothing — no history, no home, only fragments of a life that slips further with every breath. As he carries her across the wasteland toward salvation, something between them stirs. Something that feels less like chance and more like returning.
But the world they walk through is dying. The moons that once guarded the sky hang in pieces. An ancient hunger stirs in the dark places, patient and poetic and endless. And the closer Civ and Perphraine draw to each other, the closer they draw to a truth neither is prepared to carry:
They have done this before. And last time, they lost everything.
She Sat Alone is the first book in The Shattered Moons trilogy — an epic fantasy of cosmic love, sacrifice, and the quiet force that holds the universe together when everything else falls apart.
“And there she sat, alone.”
Colten Rose is a visual writer — the kind who closes his eyes and sees the scene before transcribing it into language. His prose lives in the space between poetry and storytelling, where images land before explanations arrive and the reader feels the truth before they understand it.
She Sat Alone is his debut novel and the first volume in The Shattered Moons trilogy. The series carries a deeply personal weight: Colten's father was a writer who passed away before finishing his own book. The theme at the heart of the trilogy — that love transcends death, form, and time — is not just fiction. It's inheritance.
When he's not writing, Colten is building worlds — in game development, in business, and in the stories he can't stop telling. The Shattered Moons is his first published work, but it won't be his last.
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