The Price of Creation
Book I of the Ouroboros Chronicles, by L.F. Rosales
What would you sacrifice to change destiny?
Even the gods can’t outrun what was always coming
Theo Ellis is seventeen, a week from graduation, and starting to suspect that the life he’s been living isn’t entirely his.
It begins small: a language he has never spoken that comes out of his mouth anyway. A pressure behind his eyes that feels less like a headache and more like something trying to surface. Memories of deaths he has never lived, vivid enough to leave scars. He has been explaining it away. Sleep deprivation. Stress. The kind of thing that goes away on its own.
It does not go away.
What follows pulls him across divine courts, paradox realms, and underworlds the modern age has mostly forgotten, into the center of a war older than the universe itself. Factions that have been circling each other for eons have finally found what they were looking for. The Preservers want him contained. The Weavers want him weaponized. Everyone agrees on one thing: Theo Ellis is not supposed to exist.
Through all of it, two people stay close. Ava, who understands his unraveling in ways she has no business knowing. And Kai, his best friend and anchor, whose role in everything is larger and stranger than either of them knows.
Fate was severed from reality long before Theo was born. The gods believed that was the end of it.
They were wrong.
The cast of creation
Three who were never meant to find each other, and two who have been waiting since the beginning.
Theo Ellis
Seventeen, restless, and ready for the next adventure: college, freedom, life beyond the ordinary. But the ordinary has other plans, and Theo soon learns he’s tied to something far greater than he ever imagined.
Kai Dawson
Theo’s best friend, fiercely loyal and quick to laugh. Beneath his easygoing nature is a fear of losing the people he loves and of what the future will cost him. When the threads begin to fray, Kai becomes the anchor Theo doesn’t realize he needs.
Ava
The new girl who arrives halfway through senior year, sharp-eyed and unshaken. She carries herself with a quiet confidence that hides more than it reveals, and Theo can’t shake the feeling she knows more than she should.
The primordial constants, on opposite sides of the same war
Chronos
Leads the Preservers
God of Time and leader of the Preservers within the Greater Aetheris. He embodies inevitability, guarding the fragile weave of existence even as its threads slip beyond his grasp, bound to preserve what must endure.
Phanes
Leads the Weavers
First Light and progenitor of the gods. Once revered as creator, he now seeks to unmake what he began, convinced that only through unraveling can freedom be born.
Whose side are you on?
Where the story goes
Divine courts, paradox realms, and underworlds the modern age has mostly forgotten.
Realm travel posters illustrated by Louisa.
About the book
- Series
- The Ouroboros Chronicles, Book I
- Genre
- Adult mythic science fantasy
- Length
- About 145,000 words
- Formats
- Paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook
- Audiobook
- Narrated by James Albert
- Publisher
- Pleroma Press
A universe where fate coils, unravels, and begins again.