When Songs of Crimisa begins, it glows with a kind of golden light: the quiet shimmer of lakes in summer, friendships not yet tested, and love that still believes the world can be simple. Lullaby from the Fire lives in that fragile, luminous space, where youth and hope still have room to breathe, even with danger on the horizon.
As the story moves into The Fractured Melody, that early warmth hardens into something colder, sharper. The world grows heavier, and so do the choices. Whispers of unrest deepen into the first sparks of rebellion. Collin, Dragonfly, and Nic find themselves tested in ways they never imagined at the lake’s edge. Ideals that once felt simple are pulled against reality, and resistance begins not as a march, but as a fracture. Loyalties bend, truths blur, and the golden light of youth starts to splinter.
At once lyrical and unflinching, this sweeping fantasy series is a love song of defiance, and of the beauty that lingers even in scars.
When the world breaks, some boys shatter. Others rise from the ashes.
Collin lives tucked between a wild meadow and the safety of his mother’s lullabies—until the night he climbs a tree and sees the fire. Smoke veils the stars. By morning, the world he knows is gone.
Torn from everything he loves, Collin must navigate a fractured nation ruled by fear. Haunted by memory and grief, he comes of age in the quiet shadows of resistance, drawn toward the girl who once made space for him in her world—and the dreams of a future that may never come.
But in Crimisa, nothing stays untouched for long. When love, loyalty, and legacy collide, Collin must decide what kind of man he will become—and what he’s willing to risk for the chance to rise.
Sweeping and intimate, Lullaby from the Fire is the first book in the Songs of Crimisa series—a tale of rebellion, sacrifice, and the spark that starts a revolution.

D.W. Kuo writes about broken things that burn anyway. Her characters flirt, bleed, grieve, and rebel through worlds that demand too much—and take even more. Songs of Crimisa is her love letter to those who laugh too loudly to keep from breaking, and to the ones who do break, but still rise.
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