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The Shades of Aura series explores the world where people who can manipulate the Aura of others in a world with mystical partner beasts. Each Phase can be read as a standalone, but the lore is only enriched by reading all books.
Phase 1, the Toterrum Trilogy, follows Yaron Meek and his search for what Aura he can manipulate within the world of Biome. Mystical partner beasts, raw mental health representation, found family, wars between the Auras, betrayal, and corrupt history can all be found within Phase 1.
Phase 2, the Gaia Cycle, begins with Ciro in his country of Maize. The stories grow much larger, encompassing vast and distant lands, the descendants of Gaia, and the shadows of both the past and future.
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Phase 1:
The Toterrum Trilogy
The Walls of Toterrum
(Shades of Aura Book 1)
For eighteen years, Yaron Meek has believed the same thing as everyone else in Toterrum: the world beyond the city's walls can never be seen.
On the day he comes of age, Yaron begins seeing a strange mist surrounding every living creature. When he instinctively moves it above a Toterrum Officer, the impossible happens—and he becomes the city's most wanted fugitive.
Forced beyond the walls, Yaron discovers a breathtaking world his people were taught never existed. Ancient magical forests.
Extraordinary partner beasts. Five forgotten Auras capable of manipulating strength, perception, minds, luck, and emotions. With every answer, another lie unravels—and everything he believes begins to crumble.
As war looms and powerful enemies close in, Yaron must uncover the truth behind his abilities before the lies that shaped his life destroy far more than his future.
Because some walls are built from stone. Others are built from lies.
The Calamities of Toterrum
(Shades of Aura Book 2)
After the chaos in Flaunte and an ambush outside the Blackstone Mountains, Yaron Meek finds refuge in Labyrintha, the capital of the Mentality Aura.
But escaping Toterrum's reach doesn't mean escaping its consequences.
As Yaron struggles with an increasingly troubled mind, the Soothsayer helps him navigate the depths of the Mentality Aura while he learns to understand the darkness taking hold inside him. New friendships emerge, old relationships shift, and his bond with Ricochet grows stronger.
Yet Toterrum's influence reaches farther than Yaron imagined. War with the Officers threatens Labyrintha, and the Blackstone Mountains may not hold forever. As tensions rise, Yaron must decide who he can trust and what he is willing to sacrifice to protect the people he loves.
Then, in the distance, a golden city lost to time beckons.
If the legendary Luck Aura has truly been found, its discovery could change everything.
But as calamities spread across Biome, Yaron must ask:
What if the greatest danger isn't what Toterrum is doing to the world, but what it is doing to him?
The Hopes of Toterrum
(Shades of Aura Book 3)
In the wake of a cold and crushing betrayal, Yaron and his companions drift across the sea… wounded, directionless, and haunted by war.
But as the flames of loss still burn, the Empathy Aura finds them. A flicker of hope ignites. Deep within the Coral Forest, the legendary city of Motifer finally reveals itself. Yet its gates may not open without unearthing truths from Yaron’s past—truths that could change everything.
With new mystical beasts, ancient magic, and forgotten secrets awakening, the Toterrum Trilogy reaches its breathtaking finale. As Yaron uncovers the truth behind the Lights and Biome’s twisted history, the walls that have defined his life begin to fall.
Yet freedom brings a question Yaron never expected to face:
What comes after the walls come down?
Phase 2:
The Gaia Cycle
Serendipitous Sight
(Shades of Aura Book 4)
Draft day arrives, and Ciro Sinsal will do anything to keep his family safe.
In Maize, war is tradition—and Ciro’s wife comes from a line of warriors who answer the call without hesitation. When conscription looms, Ciro makes a desperate choice to protect the people he loves.
After an unexpected encounter with his Talonhound, Ciro discovers he can see disease—its spread, its hunger, its intent—like no one else can. Hoping to avoid the front lines, he enlists as a medic, believing his strange gift can save lives without demanding something in return.
He is wrong.
As war with the neighboring Coalition intensifies, Maize takes a keen interest in Ciro’s evolving abilities. Disease does not only heal or kill—it can be moved, shaped, redirected. What begins as mercy becomes strategy. What was meant to save begins to wound.
When the consequences of war follow Ciro home to Cornia, Maize’s capital, politics tighten their grip and peace becomes a fragile illusion. Caught between loyalty, family, and a power he no longer fully controls, Ciro must decide how much suffering he is willing to redirect in the name of love—and who will bear it when he does.
In a world where war demands sacrifice, defying death does not end it. It only changes its course.