The "Of Once Were" Trilogy

Between Fire and Bone

Book One by E. S. Leung

A child found in dragon ashes. A family at the settlement's edge. A community built on bones, slowly starving inside what it killed.

This is a story of anticipatory grief and self-fulfilling prophecy. Of extraction—depleting the resources and relationships we depend on. Of secrets that destroy what they were meant to protect.

• PrologueThe Night of Falling Stars
• Chapter 1The Return
• Chapter 2The Council
• Chapter 3One More Winter
• Chapter 4Year Two
• Chapter 5Year Six
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  Chapter 6When the Sky Was Full of Fire
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• Chapter 7Year Eight
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• Chapter 8Year Ten
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• Chapter 9Year Twelve
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• Chapter 10Later
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• InterludeGreen
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• Chapter 11Waking
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• Chapter 12The Hearing
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• Chapter 13Now
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• Chapter 14The Crossing
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• Chapter 15The Moonlit Dawn
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• Chapter 16Inheritance
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"Above, the stars had stopped falling, and Torven carried his proof home."