Daughter of No Worlds

About Daughter of No Worlds

Daughter of No Worlds is the first romantasy novel in Carissa Broadbent's Ara Silas Duology, a slow-burn fantasy that takes its time with both the world-building and the romance—and is all the richer for it. Tisaanah Vytezic has spent her life enslaved, watching her people suffer under an occupying empire. When she earns her way into the Mages' Fellowship as a student, she is assigned a mentor who wants nothing to do with her: the cold, scarred, and brilliant Maxantarius Farlione. He is a man with a ruined reputation and secrets he has spent years protecting. She is a woman with an agenda, a gift she does not fully understand, and the kind of stubborn determination that refuses to bend. The novel unfolds with Broadbent's characteristic patience—building the magical world in layers, letting the relationship develop through friction and genuine intellectual respect before allowing any heat. For readers who loved the emotionally complex romantasy of The Serpent and the Wings of Night and want to explore the beginning of Broadbent's career, this is an essential read. The magic system is inventive, the political stakes are real, and the central relationship earns every moment it takes to bloom. A deeply satisfying romantasy debut.

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